Euplectrus lubomirmasneri
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus lubomirmasneri Hansson sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Material
Holotype a female labeled “COSTA RICA: Guanacaste, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Pasmompa, 3.xi.2004, M. Rios, ex Pseudoplusia includens eating Acalypha macrostachya, sibling of wasp DHJPAR0028760, 04-SRNP-56044” (BMNH). PARATYPES: 36♀ 7♂: COSTA RICA (ACG): Guanacaste: Sector Pitilla, Pasmompa: 19♀ 4♂ with same label data as holotype (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM); 29.vii.2005, P. Rios, ex Pseudoplusia includens eating Acalypha macrostachya, sibling of wasp DHJPAR0028822, 05-SRNP-32941 (17♀ 2♂, in BMNH, CNC, INBio, MIUCR, USNM); 1.xii.2008, P. Rios, ex Cecharismena zoum eating Acalypha macrostachya, sibling of wasp DHJPAR0030530, 08-SRNP-32998 (1♂, in INBio).
Diagnosis
Lower face black, median part very dark reddish-brown, almost black (Fig. 429); mandibles dark brown; fore and mid coxae white, remaining parts of fore and mid legs and entire hind leg yellowish-brown (Fig. 428); petiole 1.0× as long as wide; gaster in anterior ½ with a yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 431) or white (male, Fig. 432) spot and with lateral margins dark brown, posterior ½ dark brown; male antenna with scape narrow and widest above the middle, 3.6× as long as wide (Fig. 434).
Description
Female. Length of body 1.9 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, 2–6 dark brown (Fig. 433). Mandibles dark brown and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face black with median part very dark reddish-brown, almost black, not delimited from surrounding parts of frons (Fig. 429). Frons close to eyes with one sparse row of setae, row moving away from eye in upper part (Fig. 435). Vertex smooth (Fig. 436). Occipital margin with a weak carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 436).
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 428). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with eight setae. Scutellum 0.9× as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 437). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a very narrow groove (Fig. 769), medially 0.1× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 769); anteromedially with a triangular cup with posterior part strongly raised and distinctly higher than anterior part; propodeal callus with seven setae. Legs (Fig. 428): fore and mid coxae white, remaining parts of fore and mid legs and entire hind leg yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell with one complete row of setae on ventral surface, and margin with seven setae close to marginal vein; with 18 admarginal setae, in one row in the middle, in two rows at base and apically.
Gaster in anterior ½ yellowish-brown with wide dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 431).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.1/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 7.0/3.7/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.4; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.5/4.6/3.2; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 2.0; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.4/6.0/1.9/1.3/1.0/1.6; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.1.
Male. Length of body 1.8 mm. Scape narrow and widest above the middle (Figs 434), sensory pores confined to apicoventral ⅔, sensory area pale as scape. Similar to female except pale spot on gaster is white (Fig. 432).
Ratios. LC/WS = 3.6.
Hosts and biology
Feeding on last instar larvae of Pseudoplusia includens feeding on Acalypha macrostachya, Cecharismena zoum feeding on Acalypha macrostachya (Euphorbiaceae), (both hosts are Noctuidae). Parasitoid cocoons stuck to dead larva and substrate.
Distribution
Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province).
Etymology
This species is named after Lubo Masner, 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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