Euplectrus ireneae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus ireneae Schauff – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus ireneae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 204–207. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.
Material
Type material: 1♀ paratype of Euplectrus ireneae (BMNH).
Diagnosis
Lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching slightly outside of outer lateral margins of toruli (Fig. 401); vertex with parts close to eyes dark reddish-brown; eyes and ocelli large (Fig. 408), WE/WF = 0.9, OOL/DO = 0.5; dorsellum anteriorly without a groove or foveae (Fig. 791); petiole 0.9× as long as wide; legs white with hind coxa and hind femur yellowish-white (Fig. 400); gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown anterolateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 400).
Description
Female. Length of body 2.6 mm. Antenna with scape white, pedicel and flagellomeres yellowish-white (Fig. 403). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching slightly outside of outer lateral margins of toruli, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 401). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae (Fig. 407). Vertex with parts close to eyes dark reddish-brown; smooth (Fig. 408). Occipital margin rounded (Fig. 408).
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 400). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with nine setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation, partly smooth (Fig. 409). Dorsellum anteriorly without a groove or foveae (Fig. 791). Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 791); anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup; propodeal callus with six setae. Legs white with hind coxa and hind femur yellowish-white (Fig. 400). Fore wing: costal cell with one row of setae on ventral surface, and margin with three setae close to marginal vein; with 15 admarginal setae, in one row.
Gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown anterolateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 402).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.8/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 4.7/1.3/1.0; OOL/DO = 0.5; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/1.1/2.9/2.0; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.3/2.2/5.8/1.7/1.3/1.0/1.8; LP/WP = 0.9; MM/LG = 1.0.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts and biology
Motya Poole02 (Nolidae) feeding on Conocarpus erectus (Combretaceae) (Schauff and Janzen 2001[1]).
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Schauff M, Janzen D (2001) Taxonomy and ecology of Costa Rican Euplectrus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), parasitoids of caterpillars. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 10: 181–230.
