Eriastichus pallidops
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Eriastichus
Name
Eriastichus pallidops Hansson, 2021 sp. nov. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type locality
Costa Rica, Cartago, Humo, El Copal, 9°47'N, 83°45'W, 1050–1250 m, 29.ii–6.iii.2008, C. Hansson leg.
Type specimen
Holotype male dried and glued to a paper card. Original labels: ”Costa Rica, Cartago, Humo, El Copal, 9°47'N, 83°45'W, 1050–1250 m, 29.ii–6.iii.2008, C. Hansson”, “HOLOTYPE Eriastichus pallidops Hansson” [red printed label], (MZLU:7045.1).
Additional type material
Paratypes 2♂ with same label data as holotype (MZUCR:01695, NHMUK014431062).
Diagnosis
(male). Head with lower ½ yellowish brown (Fig. 59); antenna (Fig. 50): scape yellowish brown, ventral plaque on scape 0.7 × as long as scape, antenna with dorsobasal setae on F1 0.4 × as long as F1; gaster with lateral tufts of pale and flattened setae on Gt5-6.
Description
(male holotype MZLU:7045.1). Length of body 1.9 mm (paratypes 1.5–1.7 mm). Head yellowish brown with upper ½ of frons pale brown, vertex and upper ½ of occiput dark brown. Antenna with scape yellowish brown with dorsal margin pale brown, ventral plaque black; pedicel and flagellum brown. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum black with metallic tinges; dorsellum pale brown; propodeum dark brown. Legs yellowish brown with base of hind coxa and 4th tarsomere dark brown. Gaster dark brown.
Head. Length/width in frontal view 0.7; width/length in dorsal view 2.2; POL/OOL 1.8; WM/MS 1.7; MS/HE 0.5; HE/head length in frontal view 0.6; widths head/mesoscutum 1.1. Antenna. Pedicel + flagellum length/mesoscutum width 1.5; pedicel + flagellum length/head width 1.4; lengths scape/ventral plaque 1.4; ventral plaque located slightly above the middle of scape; scape length/width 2.8; lengths scape/head (dorsal view) 0.6; scape length/HE 0.9; length/width F1, F2, F3, F4, clava: 2.3, 2.0, 1.8, 1.8, 4.0; length dorsobasal setae on F1/length F1 0.4. Mesosoma. Length/width 1.6; mesoscutum length/width 0.5; mesoscutellum length/width 0.7; widths SMG/SLG 1.2; enclosed space between SMG length/width 1.8; lengths mesoscutum/mesoscutellum 1.2; lengths mesoscutellum/dorsellum 2.7; lengths mesosoma/gaster 0.8. Wings.CC length/width 19.3; lengths CC/MV 1.1; lengths MV/ST 2.2; lengths MV/PM 3.7; lengths PM/ST 0.6; submarginal vein with ten setae on dorsal surface (8–9 setae in paratypes). Gaster. With lateral tufts of pale and flattened setae on Gt5-6.
Etymology
Named for the yellowish brown lower face.
Original Description
- Hansson, C; 2021: The genus Eriastichus La Salle (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae, Tetrastichinae) in the Neotropical region, introducing 48 new species ZooKeys, 1019: 35-91. doi
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