Euplectrus carlowae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus carlowae Schauff – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus carlowae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 194–196. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.
Material
Type material: 1♀ paratype of Euplectrus carlowae (BMNH).
Diagnosis
Lower face with median part very dark reddish-brown and not delimited from surrounding black areas (Fig. 367); mandibles dark brown; dorsellum anteriorly with a fovea, medially 0.4× as long as length of dorsellum, that is divided medially by a longitudinal carina (Fig. 788); legs yellowish-brown with fore and mid coxae yellowish-white (Fig. 366); petiole 1.0× as long as wide; gaster dark brown with a yellowish-white T-shaped spot in anterior ½ (Fig. 368).
Description
Female. Length of body 2.2 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white with apex yellowish-brown, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown ventrally and dark brown dorsally, flagellomeres 2–6 dark brown (Fig. 369). Mandibles dark brown, palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face with median part very dark reddish-brown and not delimited from surrounding black areas (Fig. 367). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 373). Vertex smooth (Fig. 374). Occipital margin with a weak carina (Fig. 374).
Mesosoma dark brown and shiny (Fig. 366). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with eight setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation, posterior margin smooth (Fig. 375). Dorsellum anteriorly with a fovea, medially 0.4× as long as length of dorsellum, that is divided medially by a longitudinal carina (Fig. 788). Propodeum smooth (Fig. 788); anteromedially with a triangular cup that has posterior part strongly raised; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs yellowish-brown with fore and mid coxae yellowish-white (Fig. 366). Fore wing: costal cell one row of setae on ventral surface, and margin with four setae close to marginal vein; with ten admarginal setae, in one row.
Gaster dark brown with a yellowish-white T-shaped spot in anterior ½ (Fig. 368).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.8/1.0/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 4.0/2.8/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.7; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.5/4.2/3.2; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 2.0; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.2/2.7/6.5/1.7/1.5/1.0/2.1; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 0.9.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts and biology
Unknown.
Distribution
Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province) (Schauff and Janzen 2001[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Hansson, C; Smith, M; Janzen, D; Hallwachs, W; 2015: Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica ZooKeys, (485): 1-236. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Schauff M, Janzen D (2001) Taxonomy and ecology of Costa Rican Euplectrus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), parasitoids of caterpillars. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 10: 181–230.
