Cabeza laticeps, HANSSON & LASALLE, 2003

HANSSON, C. & LASALLE, J., 2003, Revision of the Neotropical species of the tribe Euderomphalini (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), Journal of Natural History 37 (6), pp. 697-778 : 709

Cabeza laticeps sp. n.

(figures 71, 80, 86)

Diagnosis

Male scape strongly flattened and wide (figure 71); head very transverse, 2.2× as wide as high (figure 86); frons with a blunt transverse edge in front of anterior ocellus (figure 86); submarginal vein with one seta (figure 80); basal two-thirds of wing membrane bare, setae in apical one-third sparsely situated; dorsellum visible as a wide and short stripe; petiole 0.5× as long as wide, dorsal surface smooth and shiny.

Male (length of body= 1.1 mm)

Colour. Scape and pedicel dark brown; flagellar segment 1 yellowish brown, 2–4 pale yellowish brown. Frons metallic bluish-purple. Vertex dark brown with metallic tinges. Mesoscutum metallic purple. Scutellum golden with purple tinges. Propodeum golden-green, laterally with purple tinges. Coxae and femora dark brown; fore tibia pale with infuscate base, mid tibia infuscate with apical one-half paler, hind tibia dark; tarsi pale. Fore wing hyaline with surface just below base of marginal vein strongly infuscate. Petiole dark brown. Gaster shiny, metallic purplish blue.

Head. Antenna as in figure 71. HE/MS/MO: 1.2/1.0/1.1. Frons with weak small meshed reticulation laterad to antennal scrobes, meshes ± isodiametric, surface between scrobes smooth and shiny. Vertex smooth and shiny in front of vertexal suture, behind suture with strong small meshed reticulation and ± wrinkled. POL/OOL/POO: 1.4/1.0/not measurable. Occipital margin as a sharp edge. WH/WT=1.4.

Mesosoma . Mesoscutum with weak and engraved reticulation. Scutellum 0.7× as long as wide, with weak and engraved reticulation. Dorsellum visible as a wide and short shiny stripe. TPS distinctly curved. Fore wing with two admarginal setae; submarginal vein with one seta; basal two-thirds of wing membrane bare, apical one-third with sparse setation; LW/LM/HW: 1.7/1.0/1.0; PM/ST =0.8. Propodeum smooth and shiny.

Metasoma. Petiole 0.5× as long as wide; dorsal surface smooth and shiny. MM/LG=1.2.

Material examined

H: W, Brazil: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia , 10 December 1949, F. Plaumann (BMNH) .