Galeopsomyia haemon (Walker)

Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5 The genus Galeopsomyia Girault by Christer Hansson * & Paul E. Hanson **, Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) 3 (1), pp. 1-743 : 57-58

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scientific name

Galeopsomyia haemon (Walker)
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Galeopsomyia haemon (Walker) View in CoL

( Figs 662, 663)

Tetrastichus haemon Walker 1847:28 View in CoL . Lectotype ♀ (primary type no. 5.141 4, NHMUK

013458202) designated by Burks (1971:82), examined. U.S.A. (Florida). Euderus columbiana Ashmead 1888:104 . Lectotype ♀ (USNM) designated by Burks

(1975:144), District of Columbia & Florida (D.C. is locality for lectotype). Synonymized

by Burks (1975:144). Cruderus columbiana (Ashmead) , Howard (1892:215). Trichaporus columbiana (Ashmead) , Ashmead (1900:561). Galeopsomyia columbiana (Ashmead) , Girault (1916:348). Horismenus haemon (Walker) , Burks (1943:605). Galeopsomyia haemon (Walker) , Burks (1971:82).

Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a solid clava ( Fig. 663); genal carina absent; mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves indistinct and hardly visible ( Fig. 662); dorsellum without median carina; hind coxa without carina along posterior margin; tibiae dark brown with apex yellowish-brown ( Fig. 663); gaster 2.4× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt 1 with upper margin rounded, without carinae or edges, tergites with strong reticulation ( Fig. 662).

Redescription (female lectotype). Length of body 2.1mm.

Scape brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head and body black with metallic tinges. Legs with coxae black with metallic tinges; trochanters dark brown; femora dark brown; tibiae

dark brown with apex yellowish-brown; T1–3 pale brown, T4 dark brown. Petiole not visible on type. Gaster with gonoplac black.

Antenna with solid clava. Frons with strong reticulation, clypeal area smooth, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; genal carina absent. Vertex with strong reticulation.

Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without a median groove, adnotaular setae not possible to see on type. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves indistinct. Dorsellum with strong sculpture, without median carina. Propodeum with a strong median carina, with strong reticulation; callus with eight setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation; hind coxa without carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with four setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.

Petiole not visible on type. Gaster elongate; tergites with strong reticulation.

Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 25; head length, frontal view 48; POL 15; OOL 7; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 55; mouth width 19; malar space 14; eye length 24; scape length 25; scape width 4.5; pedicel+flagellum length 60; pedicel length 10; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 10; F1 width 6; F2 length 9.5; F2 width 7.5; F3 length 7; F3 width 7; clava length 20; clava width 7.5; C3 length nm; spicule length nm; mesosoma length 72; mesosoma width 51; midlobe of mesoscutum length 25.5; mesoscutellum length 28; mesoscutellum width 22; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) nm; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part nm; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part nm; lateral part of mesoscutellum (measured medially) nm; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 12; costal cell length 39; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length nm; stigmal vein length nm; gaster length 110; gaster width 45; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 6; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 17; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 17; Gt

7

width (measured at base) 15; longest cercal seta length nm; shortest cercal seta length nm.

Male. Unknown.

Host s. Reared from Asphondylia borrichiae Rossi & Strong ( Stiling et al. 1992) , A. helianthiglobulus Osten Sacken ( Burks 1979) , Rhopalomyia sp. ( Burks 1979). All hosts are Cecidomyiidae ( Diptera ).

Distribution. U.S.A. (Florida) ( Walker 1847), (District of Columbia & Florida) ( Ashmead 1888).

Material examined. Lectotype female of T. haemon in NHMUK.

Ashmead, W. H. 1888. Descriptions of some new North American Chalcididae. III: Euderinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Canadian Entomologist, 20 (6): 101 - 107.

Ashmead, W. H. 1900. Order Hymenoptera. (In Smith: Catalogue of Insects of New Jersey), Annual Report of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture, 27 (Supplement): 510 - 613. State Board of Agriculture, New Jersey.

Burks, B. D. 1943. The North American parasitic wasps of the genus Tetrastichus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 93: 505 - 608.

Burks, B. D. 1971. The Nearctic species of Horismenus Walker (Hym., Eulophidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 73: 68 - 83.

Burks, B. D. 1975. The species of Chalcidoidea described from North America north of Mexico by Francis Walker (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology), 32 (4): 139 - 170.

Burks, B. D. 1979. Torymidae (Agaoninae) and all other families of Chalcidoidea (excluding Encyrtidae). (In: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D. jr.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D., Editors). Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, 1: 748 - 749, 768 - 889, 967 - 1043 Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington, D. C.

Girault, A. A. 1916. A new genus of Tetrastichini (chalcidoid Hymenoptera). Entomological News, 27: 348.

Howard, L. O. 1892, June 4, 1891. [Cruderus columbiana.] Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 2: 215.

Stiling, P., Rossi, A. M., Strong, D. R. & Johnson, D. M. 1992. Life history and parasites of Asphondylia borrichiae (Diptera; Cecidomyiidae) a gall maker on Borrichia frutescens. Florida Entomologist 75 (1): 130 - 137.

Walker, F. 1847. Characters of undescribed Chalcidites collected in North America by E. Doubleday Esq., and now in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 20: 19 - 29.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Eulophidae

Genus

Galeopsomyia