Euplectrus floryae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus floryae Schauff – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus floryae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 200–203. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.
Material
Type material: 1♀ 1♂ paratypes of Euplectrus floryae (BMNH). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 104♀ 15♂, caterpillar project vouchers: 82-SRNP-368, 84-SRNP-1501, 90-SRNP-1946, 91-SRNP-248, 91-SRNP-248, 91-SRNP-251, 91-SRNP-277, 91-SRNP-278, 91-SRNP-282, 91-SRNP-1512, 91-SRNP-1713, 92-SRNP-293, 92-SRNP-524, 92-SRNP-1073, 92-SRNP-1084, 92-SRNP-1115, 92-SRNP-2612, 92-SRNP-3473, 92-SRNP-5353, 93-SRNP-2502, 93-SRNP-7708, 94-SRNP-935, 97-SRNP-3317, 97-SRNP-4188, 97-SRNP-4197, 97-SRNP-4198, 97-SRNP-4210, 97-SRNP-4238, 97-SRNP-4240, 97-SRNP-4242, 97-SRNP-4248, 97-SRNP-4250, 97-SRNP-4251, 97-SRNP-4270, 97-SRNP-4271, 97-SRNP-4275, 97-SRNP-4310, 97-SRNP-4323, 97-SRNP-4324, 97-SRNP-5955, 97-SRNP-9370, 05-SRNP-55990, 05-SRNP-55991, 11-SRNP-20910, 11-SRNP-20928, 11-SRNP-20935, 13-SRNP-20741 (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM).
Diagnosis
Entire lower face yellowish-white with median part yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 584) or completely white (male, Fig. 585), pale part close to eyes extends above level of toruli and laterally to hypostomal carina; vertex dark reddish-brown; legs in female with fore and mid legs white to yellowish-white with tarsi yellowish-brown, hind leg with coxa and tarsus yellowish-brown, femur and tibia yellowish-white (Fig. 583), in male fore and mid legs as in female, but hind leg with coxa and basal ½ of femur white, apical ½ of femur, tibia and tarsus yellowish-white; petiole 1.0× as long as wide in both sexes; female gaster yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, with posterior ⅓ pale brown with dark brown lateral margins and with a small round dark brown spot anteromedially (Fig. 586), male gaster with basal ½ white with black lateral margins, posterior ½ black (Fig. 587); male antenna with scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle, 2.8× as long as wide (Fig. 589).
Description
Female. Length of body 2.0 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white with apex yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, 2–3 pale brown, 4–6 dark brown (Fig. 588). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face yellowish-white with median part yellowish-brown (Fig. 584), pale part close to eyes extends above level of toruli and laterally to hypostomal carina; vertex dark reddish-brown. Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 593). Vertex smooth (Fig. 594). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 594).
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 583). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 14 setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 595). Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 789), groove medially 0.3× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 789); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with 12 setae. Legs (Fig. 583): fore and mid legs white to yellowish-white with tarsi yellowish-brown, hind leg with coxa and tarsus yellowish-brown, femur and tibia yellowish-white. Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with two setae close to marginal vein; with 13 admarginal setae, in one row.
Petiole anterolaterally with a strong seta. Gaster yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ⅓ pale brown with dark brown lateral margins and with a small round dark brown spot anteromedially (Fig. 586).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.3/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 7.4/3.6/1.0; OOL/DO = 0.9; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.3/4.2/3.0; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.4/2.9/7.1/2.4/1.9/1.0/1.6; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.2.
Male. Length of body 1.9 mm. Scape white, slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 589), sensory pores confined to apicoventral ⅔. Otherwise similar to female except lower face completely white (Fig. 585); hind coxa and basal ½ of femur white, apical ½ of femur, tibia and tarsus yellowish-white; gaster with basal ½ white with black lateral margins, posterior ½ black (Fig. 587).
Ratios. LC/WS = 2,8; MM/LG = 1.2.
Hosts and biology
Cautethia spuria, Enyo ocypete, Perigonia ilusDHJ01, Perigonia lusca (all hosts are Sphingidae).
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.
