Euplectrus orias
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus orias Schauff – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus orias Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 216–217. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined.
Material
Type material: 1♀ paratype of Euplectrus orias (BMNH).
Diagnosis
Head dark brown and shiny, lower face medially pale brown (Fig. 418); scutellum almost smooth with only very weak traces of reticulation; legs yellowish-brown with hind coxa dark brown and hind femur pale brown (Fig. 417); fore wing submarginal vein with four setae; petiole 0.6× as long as wide; gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 419).
Description
Female. Length of body 1.3 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres dark brown (Fig. 420). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head dark brown and shiny, lower face medially pale brown (Fig. 418). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae. Vertex smooth. Occipital margin with a carina.
Mesosoma dark brown and shiny (Fig. 417). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with eight setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; almost smooth with only very weak traces of reticulation. Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae. Propodeum smooth; anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup; propodeal callus with six setae. Legs yellowish-brown with hind coxa dark brown and hind femur pale brown (Fig. 417). Fore wing: costal cell on ventral surface with one row of setae, and margin with one seta close to marginal vein; with 13 admarginal setae, in one row.
Gaster with anterior ½ yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 419).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.5/1.3/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 4.8/3.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.5; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/3.5/5.5/4.5; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 1.5; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.8/2.4/6.2/2.5/1.3/1.0/1.3; LP/WP = 0.6; MM/LG = 1.1.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts and biology
Oxydia sociataDHJ02 (Geometridae) feeding on Picramnia antidesma (Simaroubaceae) (Schauff and Janzen 2001[1]).
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.
