Euplectrus marginatus
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus marginatus Ashmead – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- [[Euplectus[sic!] marginatus|Euplectus[sic!] marginatus]] Ashmead, 1885: 18. Lectotype ♀ (USNM), designated here, examined.
Material
Type material: ♀ lectotype of Euplectus marginatus (USNM).
Diagnosis
Head including lower face black (Fig. 728); scutellum with strong engraved reticulation; dorsellum and propodeum with strong reticulation; legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 727); petiole 0.7× as long as wide; gaster dark brown with a yellowish-brown spot anteromedially (Fig. 729).
Description
Female. Length of body 1.5 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, (Fig. 728). Mandibles and palpi not visible. Head including lower face black and shiny (Fig. 728). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae. Vertex with weak reticulation. Occipital margin with a carina.
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 727). Mesoscutum with number of setae on sidelobes difficult to see because they are mostly broken. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with strong engraved reticulation. Dorsellum with a narrow groove along anterior margin. Propodeum strongly reticulate; anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup; propodeal callus with six setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 727). Fore wing: setae on ventral side of costal cell and admarginal setae difficult to see; margin of costal cell with one seta close to marginal vein.
Gaster dark brown with a small yellowish-brown spot anteromedially (Fig. 729).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = nm; POL/OOL/POO = 4.1/1.9/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.5; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/3.6/6.0/4.5; WH/WT = 1.0; PM/ST = 1.3; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.8/7.8/2.8/1.3/1.0/2.3; LP/WP = 0.7; MM/LG = 1.5.
Male. Not seen.
Hosts and biology
Noctuidae indet. (Lepidoptera) (Ashmead 1885[1]).
Distribution
USA (Florida) (Ashmead 1885[1]).
Remarks
This species was described from 15 specimens, 13 females and 2 males, but no primary type was selected. One of the females is here designated as lectotype, with labels “Jacksonville, Fla”, “Type”, “Type No.27642, U.S.N.M.”, “Euplectrus marginatus Ashm.”, “Euplectrus marginatus Lectotype Gordh 1978”. This specimen was selected as lectotype by G. Gordh but was never validated. The redescription above is based on the lectotype, as are also the illustrations. The lectotype lacks entire right antenna and left antennal flagellum.
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 Ashmead W (1885) Studies on North American Chalcididae, with descriptions of new species from Florida. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 12: x–xix.
