Euplectrus solitarius
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus solitarius Ashmead – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Euplectrus solitarius Ashmead, 1904: 517. Holotype ♀ (USNM), examined.
Material
Type material: ♀ holotype of Euplectrus solitarius (USNM).
Diagnosis
Lower face medially reddish-brown, pale area reaching to level of outer lateral margins of toruli (Fig. 487); legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 486); scutellum with very weak engraved reticulation, almost smooth medially and with posterior ⅕ smooth; dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove that medially reaches ⅕ of length of dorsellum.
Description
Female. Length of body 1.3 mm (excluding gaster which is missing in holotype). Antenna with scape yellowish-white, pedicel yellowish-brown (Fig. 488). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-brown. Head black and shiny, lower face medially reddish-brown, pale area reaching to level of outer lateral margins of toruli, parts between pale area and eyes black (Fig. 487). Frons close to eyes with three rows of setae. Vertex smooth. Occipital margin rounded.
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 486). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 14 setae. Scutellum 1.1× as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation, almost smooth medially and with posterior ⅕ smooth. Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove, medially about 0.2× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth; anteromedially with a triangular cup that has posterior part strongly raised; propodeal callus with seven setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 486). Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with five setae close to marginal vein; with 15 admarginal setae, in one row.
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.8/1.1/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 4.2/2.8/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.6; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.4/4.3/3.3; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.6; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 3.4/2.0/5.8/1.8/1.2/1.0/1.4.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts and biology
Unknown.
Distribution
Brazil (Ashmead 1904[1]).
Remarks
The holotype specimen lacks flagellum on both antennae, femora, tibiae and tarsi on fore legs, entire hind left leg, and petiole+gaster. The missing body parts make it difficult to fix the identity of this species and it is therefore not possible to include in the key.
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
- ↑ Ashmead W (1904) Classification of the chalcid flies of the superfamily Chalcidoidea, with descriptions of new species in the Carnegie Museum, collected in South America by Herbert H. Smith. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 1(4): i–xi, 225–551, 39 pls.
