Euplectrus furnius
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus furnius Walker – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus furnius Walker, 1843: 48. Lectotype ♀ (BMNH), examined.
Material
Type material: ♀ lectotype of Euplectrus furnius (BMNH).
Diagnosis
Lower face black; antennal flagellum short, e.g. flagellomeres 3–4 1.1× as long as wide; scutellum with very weak reticulation, almost smooth; legs yellowish-brown; petiole 0.9× as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown.
Description
Female. Length of body 2.0 mm. Antenna with scape, pedicel and flagellomeres 1–2 yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 3–6 pale brown. Mandibles and palpi yellowish-brown. Head including lower face black and shiny. Vertex smooth and shiny. Occipital margin with a weak carina behind ocellar triangle.
Mesosoma black and shiny. Scutellum convex, 1.0× as long as wide, with very weak engraved reticulation, posterior and lateral margins smooth. Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae, groove medially 0.3× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth; anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup that has posterior part strongly raised; propodeal callus with eight setae. Legs yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell on margin with two setae close to marginal vein.
Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown.
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.3/1.0/nm; POL/OOL/POO = 4.0/3.0/nm; OOL/DO = nm; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/6.3/7.3/5.7; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 1.3; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.0/7.6/2.8/1.4/1.0/2.0; LP/WP = 0.9; MM/LG = 1.5.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts and biology
Unknown.
Distribution
The West Indies (St Vincent) (Walker 1843[1]).
Remarks
Lectotype specimen with left flagellum missing. See also remarks under Euplectrus insularis.
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
Other References
- ↑ Walker F (1843) Descriptions of Chalcidites discovered in St. Vincent’s Isle by the Rev. Lansdown Guilding. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 46–49. doi: 10.1080/03745484309442485
