Euplectrus johnheratyi
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus johnheratyi Hansson sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Material
Holotype a female labeled “COSTA RICA: Alajuela, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Pasmompa, 10.vi.2005, C. Moraga, ex Cropia rivulosa eating Cordia bicolor, sibling of wasp DHJPAR0028817, 05-SRNP-32014” (BMNH). PARATYPES: 5♀ 3♂ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, CNC, INBio, USNM).
Diagnosis
Lower face medially yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 360) or white (male, Fig. 361) with median part pale brown, pale area reaching slightly outside level of lateral margins of toruli; scutellum with distinctly elongate meshes (Fig. 372); dorsellum along anterior margin with a very wide groove, 0.5× as long as length of dorsellum, surface behind groove with a median carina (Fig. 765); legs yellowish-brown in female (Fig. 359), paler in male; propodeum anteromedially with a triangular cup that has posterior part strongly raised and distinctly higher than anterior part (Fig. 765); petiole 0.7× as long as wide; gaster in anterior ½ yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 362) or white (male, Fig. 363) with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown; male antenna with scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle, 3.5× as long as wide, sensory area yellowish-brown and slightly darker than scape (Fig. 365).
Description
Female. Length of body 2.8 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white in basal ½ and yellowish-brown in apical ½, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres 1–3 yellowish-brown ventrally and dark brown dorsally, 4–6 dark brown (Fig. 364). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown with median part pale brown, reaching slightly outside level of lateral margin of toruli, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 360). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 370). Vertex smooth (Fig. 371). Occipital margin with a weak carina (Fig. 371).
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 359). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 12 setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation and with distinctly elongate meshes (Fig. 372). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a very wide groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae, groove 0.5× as long as length of dorsellum, surface behind groove with a median carina (Fig. 765). Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 765); anteromedially with a transverse circular cup that has posterior part strongly raised and is distinctly higher than anterior part; propodeal callus with ten setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 359). Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with two rows of setae in basal ⅔ and one row in apical ⅓, and margin with two setae close to marginal vein; with 15 admarginal setae, in one row.
Gaster in anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 362).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.0/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 7.2/4.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.2; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.6/4.6/3.4; WH/WT = 1.0; PM/ST = 1.5; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.2/2.5/6.7/2.7/1.5/1.0/1.5; LP/WP = 0.7; MM/LG = 1.1.
Male. Length of body 1.9 mm. Scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 365), sensory pores confined to apicoventral ¾, sensory area yellowish-brown and slightly darker than scape. Otherwise similar to female except lower face with pale part white (Fig. 361), legs paler, petiole longer, gaster shorter and with lateral parts of pale area white (Fig. 363).
Ratios. LC/WS = 3.5; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.5.
Hosts and biology
Feeding on last instar larva of Cropia rivulosa (Noctuidae) feeding on Cordia bicolor (Boraginaceae), parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.
Distribution
Costa Rica (Alajuela Province).
Etymology
This species is named after John M. Heraty, in recognition of his contribution to the understanding of ACG Hymenoptera taxonomy.
Original Description
- 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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