Euplectrus mariae
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus mariae Schauff – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus mariae Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 214–216. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.
Material
Type material: 1♀ 1♂ paratypes of Euplectrus mariae (BMNH). Additional material: Costa Rica: 41♀ 7♂ from Guanacaste Province; caterpillar project voucher codes: 92-SRNP-993, 92-SRNP-2923, 92-SRNP-2924, 92-SRNP-3032, 92-SRNP-3141, 92-SRNP-3142, 92-SRNP-3297, 93-SRNP-1577, 93-SRNP-1582, 93-SRNP-1585, 94-SRNP-1055, 94-SRNP-1063, 94-SRNP-1071, 94-SRNP-1075, 94-SRNP-1081, 94-SRNP-1088, 94-SRNP-1090, 94-SRNP-1160, 94-SRNP-1216, 94-SRNP-1217, 96-SRNP-1314, 09-SRNP-72128 (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM).
Diagnosis
Lower face medially with median part yellowish-brown and lateral parts white, pale area reaching half-way between outer lateral margins of toruli and eyes (Figs 624, 625); fore and mid legs yellowish-white, hind leg yellowish-brown (Fig. 623); petiole 0.6× as long as wide in female, 0.8× in male; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 626) or white (male, Fig. 627) with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown; male antenna with scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle, 2.9× as long as wide (Fig. 629), and with apicoventral sensory area dark brown.
Description
Female. Length of body 2.3 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white, pedicel and flagellomeres 1–2 yellowish-brown, 3–6 yellowish-brown ventrally and dark brown dorsally (Fig. 628). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially with median part yellowish-brown and lateral parts white, reaching half-way between outer lateral margins of toruli and eyes, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 624). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 633). Vertex smooth (Fig. 634). Occipital margin with a weak carina (Fig. 634).
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 623). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 15 setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 635). Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 795), groove medially 0.2× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 795); anteromedially with a transverse triangular cup; propodeal callus with ten setae. Legs (Fig. 623): fore and mid legs yellowish-white, hind leg yellowish-brown. 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 yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 626).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.1/1.0/1.1; POL/OOL/POO = 8.2/4.2/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.1; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.5/4.7/3.7; WH/WT = 1.0; PM/ST = 1.9; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.8/2.5/6.3/2.1/1.4/1.0/2.1; LP/WP = 0.6; MM/LG = 0.9.
Male. Length of body 1.9 mm. Scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle, sensory pores confined to apicoventral 2/3 and with sensory area dark brown (Fig. 629). Otherwise similar to female except legs yellowish-white with hind coxa and hind femur slightly darker; petiole longer; gaster shorter and with pale parts white (Fig. 627).
Ratios. LC/WS = 2.9; LP/WP = 0.8; MM/LG = 1.3.
Hosts and biology
Concana hoshea, Concana Poole01, Concana Poole02 (Noctuidae) (Schauff and Janzen 2001[1]) feeding on Byrsonima crassifolia, Heteropterys laurifolia, and Hiraea reclinata (all host plants are Malpighiaceae).
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.
