Euplectrus testaceipes
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Ordo: Hymenoptera
Familia: Eulophidae
Genus: Euplectrus
Name
Euplectrus testaceipes (Cameron) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Rekabia testaceipes Cameron, 1904: 66. Lectotype ♂ (BMNH), examined.
- Euplectrus testaceipes (Cameron) (Kerrich 1974[1]: 636).
- Elachistus carinatus Cameron, 1913: 126. Lectotype ♀ (BMNH), examined. Synonymized by Bouček (1977[2]: 11).
- Euplectrus walteri Schauff in Schauff & Janzen, 2001: 224–225. Holotype ♀ (INBio), not examined. New synonym.
Material
Type material: male lectotype of Rekabia testaceipes (BMNH), female lectotype of Elachistus carinatus (BMNH), 1♀ 1♂ paratypes of Euplectrus walteri (BMNH). Additional material: COSTA RICA: 31♀ 8♂ from Guanacaste Province; caterpillar project voucher codes: 84-SRNP-623, 84-SRNP-805, 91-SRNP-1636, 92-SRNP-2262, 92-SRNP-3018, 92-SRNP-3174, 92-SRNP-3708, 92-SRNP-3811, 92-SRNP-4114, 93-SRNP-2239, 95-SRNP-7544, 96-SRNP-6830, 96-SRNP-10435, 97-SRNP-3135, 98-SRNP-10806, 01-SRNP-14301, 02-SRNP-7759, 05-SRNP-46152, 07-SRNP-31879, 08-SRNP-16396, 08-SRNP-13885, 10-SRNP-72733 (BMNH, CNC, INBio, MZLU, MIUCR, USNM).
Diagnosis
Lower face pointed downwards, medially yellowish-brown (female, Fig. 645) or yellowish-white (male, Fig. 646), pale area reaching to level of outer lateral margin of toruli and up between toruli; legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 644); dorsellum with a wide groove along anterior margin (Fig. 797), medially 0.4× as long as length of dorsellum; propodeum with a wide median carina (Fig. 797); gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown lateral margins that are broken posteriorly, posterior ½ black, in female with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 647); male antenna with scape slightly expanded, widest in the middle, 3.0× as long as wide (Fig. 650); petiole 1.0× as long as wide in female, 1.1× in male, with a strong seta anterolaterally.
Description
Female. Length of body 2.9 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomere 1 pale brown, 2–6 dark brown (Fig. 649). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head black and shiny, lower face medially yellowish-brown, pale area reaching to level of outer margin of toruli and up between toruli (Fig. 645). Frons close to eyes with one row of setae in lower ½, with two irregular rows in upper ½ (Fig. 656). Vertex smooth (Fig. 657). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 657).
Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 644). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 15 setae. Scutellum 0.9× as long as wide; with rather strong engraved reticulation (Fig. 658). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a wide groove (Fig. 797), medially 0.4× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 797); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with seven setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 644). Fore wing: costal cell with two complete rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with five setae close to marginal vein; with 19 admarginal setae in one row.
Petiole with a strong seta anterolaterally. Gaster with anterior ½ white with dark brown lateral margins that are broken posteriorly, posterior ½ black with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 647).
Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.1/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 8.4/4.4/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.3; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.3/4.3/3.1; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.7; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.5/7.3/2.8/1.8/1.0/1.5; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.1.
Male. Length of body 2.5 mm. Scape slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 650), sensory pores confined to apicoventral ⅔. Similar to female except antenna with flagellum longer and more slender (Fig. 650); lower face with pale area yellowish-white (Fig. 646); petiole longer; gaster shorter.
Ratios. LC/WS = 3.0; LP/WP = 1.1; MM/LG = 1.3.
Hosts and biology
Manduca dilucida feeding on Tabebuia ochracea (Bignoniaceae); Manduca florestan feeding on Aegiphila martinicensis, Cornutia grandifolia (Lamiaceae), Cydista heterophylla, Pithecoctenium crucigerum, Tabebuia ochracea (Bignoniaceae), Cordia alliodora (Boraginaceae), Gmelina arborea (Verbenaceae); Manduca lanuginosa feeding on Cydista heterophylla; Manduca rustica feeding on Aegiphila martinicensis (Lamiaceae), Merremia umbellata (Convolvulaceae); Manduca sexta feeding on Capsicuum annuum (Solanaceae) (all hosts are Sphingidae).
Distribution
Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province) (Schauff and Janzen 2001[3]), Guyana (Cameron 1913[4]), Nicaragua (Cameron 1904[5]).
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
- ↑ Kerrich G (1974) Systematic studies on Eulophidae of economic significance (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Bulletin of Entomological Research 63(4): 629–639. doi: 10.1017/S0007485300047866
- ↑ Bouček Z (1977) Descriptions of two new species of Neotropical Eulophidae (Hymenoptera) of economic interest, with taxonomic notes on related species and genera. Bulletin of Entomological Research 67(1): 1–15. doi: 10.1017/S0007485300010841
- ↑ Schauff M, Janzen D (2001) Taxonomy and ecology of Costa Rican Euplectrus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), parasitoids of caterpillars. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 10: 181–230.
- ↑ Cameron P (1913) The Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum. Part V. Timehri, Guyana (3) 3: 105–137.
- ↑ Cameron P (1904) New Hymenoptera, mostly from Nicaragua. Invertebrata Pacifica 1: 46–69.
