Euplectrus mellipes
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus mellipes Provancher – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus mellipes Provancher, 1887: 207. Lectotype ♀ (CNC), designated by Gahan and Rohwer 1917[1]: 399, examined.
Material
Type material: ♀ lectotype of Euplectrus mellipes (CNC).
Diagnosis
Lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching half-way between outer lateral margins of toruli and eyes (Fig. 461); scutellum reticulate with elongate meshes that converge toward the middle, anteromedian ½ of scutellum with weaker reticulation; legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 460); petiole 0.9× as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 462).
Description
Female. Length of body 2.4 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres brown (Fig. 463). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-brown. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching half-way between outer lateral margins of toruli and eyes, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 461). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae. Vertex smooth. Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle.
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 460). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 12 setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; reticulate with elongate meshes that converge toward the middle, anteromedian ½ of scutellum with weaker reticulation. Dorsellum with a very narrow groove along anterior margin, medially 0.1× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth; anteromedially with a triangular cup; propodeal callus with 12 setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 460). Fore wing: costal cell with one row of setae on ventral surface, and margin with four setae close to marginal vein.
Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 462).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.0/1.0/1.2; POL/OOL/POO = 6.0/3.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.2; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.4/4.6/3.6; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.3/2.0/6.2/2.0/1.5/1.0/1.7; LP/WP = 0.9; MM/LG = 1.3.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts and biology
Unknown.
Distribution
Canada (Provancher 1887[2]).
Remarks
The antennae of the lectotype lack flagellum of right antenna and apical two flagellomeres on left antenna.
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
- ↑ Gahan A, Rohwer S (1917) Lectotypes of the species of Hymenoptera (except Apoidea) described by Abbé Provancher. Canadian Entomologist 49(11): 391–400. doi: 10.4039/Ent49391-11
- ↑ Provancher L (1887) Faune entomologique de Canada, 2. Additions et corrections à la faune Hymenoptèrologique de la province de Québec, 165–272.
