Review of Grotiusomyia Girault (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae), an exclusively New World genus, including 17 new species
Author
Hansson, Christer
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.2
1175-5326
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Grotiusomyia reticulata
sp. nov.
Figs 16
,
41, 42
,
62
,
69
,
91
,
108
Diagnosis
. Female: mandibles yellowish-brown with a row of small teeth at apex (as in
Fig. 112
); flagellum brown, 1.3× as long as width of mesoscutum, F4 1.3× as long as wide, apex of clava pointed (
Figs 16
,
62
); vertex with weak reticulation (
Fig. 91
); occipital margin with a sharp carina throughout (
Fig. 91
); mesoscutum and mesoscutellum with same colour and reticulation (
Fig. 41
); mesoscutellum convex; dorsellum flat, smooth and shiny, medio-posterior part slightly protruding with small dents; fore wing with 2–4 setae in apico-dorsal part of costal cell, completely hyaline (
Fig. 16
); fore coxa white, mid coxa pale brown (
Fig. 16
); gaster (
Fig. 41
) 1.7× as long as wide with apex pointed; Gt
1
0.4× as long as length of gaster, dorsal surface reticulate with anterior ¼ smooth, meshes elongate, posterior margin curved forwards; Gt
6
0.1× as long as length of gaster with anterior part 1.5× as wide as width of posterior part, posterior margin straight with sharp edge. Male: gaster entirely dark brown, reticulation on Gt
1
weak and superficial, or without reticulation (
Fig. 42
).
Description (female
holotype
).
Length
1.4 mm
. Frons with strong reticulation, scrobes smooth. Vertex with weak reticulation. Mandibles with a row of small teeth at apex. Occipital margin with a sharp carina throughout. Dorsellum ±flat, smooth and shiny, medio-posterior part slightly protruding with small dents. Propodeal callus with eight setae. Fore wing with six setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; with 12 admarginal setae; costal cell with 11 setae on ventral surface, in one row, apico-dorsal margin with two setae; speculum small and closed below. Gaster long ovate with pointed apex; Gt
1
reticulate with anterior ¼ smooth, remaining tergites with weak reticulation; Gt
1
with posterior margin curved forwards, Gt
6
with posterior margin straight.
Colour. Head metallic bluish-green, scrobes and part inside ocellar triangle black with metallic tinges. Mandibles yellowish-brown. Antennae with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum brown. Mesosoma black with metallic greenish tinges. Legs with fore coxa white, mid coxa pale brown, hind coxa black with metallic tinges; trochanters yellowish-white; femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown. Gaster with Gt
1
with smooth parts metallic bluish and reticulate parts dark brown with metallic tinges, remaining tergites dark brown with metallic tinges.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 18; head length, frontal view 26; head width 36; POL 7.5; OOL 3.5; mouth width 9; malar space 4.5; eye length 21; lateral ocellus diameter 3.5; scape length 14; scape width 3; pedicel length 5.5; pedicel width. dorsal view 3; flagellum length 35; F1 length 6.5; F1 width 3; F2 length 6; F2 width 3.5; F3 length 6; F3 width 4; F4 length 5; F4 width 4; clava length 9.5; clava width 4; pronotum length 13; pronotum width 22; mesosoma length 46; mesosoma width 28; midlobe of mesoscutum length 16; mesoscutellum length 16; mesoscutellum width 14.5; propodeum length 10; hind tibia length 31; hind tibial spur1 length 5.5; hind tibial spur2 length 2.5; hind tarsus length 25; hind basitarsus length 7.5; fore wing length 84; fore wing width 37; costal cell length 24; costal cell width 1.5; marginal vein length 25; postmarginal vein length 11; stigmal vein length 7.5; Gt
1
length 22; Gt
6
length 5.5; Gt
6
width at base 15; Gt
6
width at apex 10; gaster length 55; gaster width 32.
Variation. Length of body
1.2–1.7 mm
. Costal cell with 2–4 setae in apico-dorsal part. Propodeal callus with 6–8 setae.
Male
. Length
0.9–1.3 mm
. Fore coxa white to pale brown. Reticulation on Gt
1
weak and superficial, or missing. Otherwise as in female.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 13; head width 27.5; eye length 15; scape length 11; scape width 2.5; flagellum length 34; F1 length 6.5; F1 width 3.5; F2 length 5.5; F2 width 3.5; F3 length 5.5; F3 width 3.5; F4 length 5.5; F4 width 4; clava length 10; clava width 3.5; Gt
1
length 13.5; gaster length 36; gaster width 20.
Distribution
.
Costa Rica
.
Etymology
. Name referring to reticulate first gastral tergite.
Material
.
Holotype
female
:
COSTA RICA
,
Guanacaste
,
Parque Nacional Santa Rosa
, 300,.SE-8-C,
8.ii-2.iii.1986
,
D.H. Janzen
&
I.D. Gauld
(
NHMUK
)
.
Paratypes
(
34♀
21♁
,
CNC
,
MZLU
,
MZUCR
,
NHMUK
):
1♀
with same label data as holotype
;
following from same locality as holotype but collected
13.vii-3.viii.1985
(
1♀
),
3-24.viii.1985
(
3♁
),
5-26.x.1985
(
1♀
4♁
),
26.x-16.xi.1985
(
1♀
2♁
),
16.xi-7.xii.1985
(
1♀
),
7-28.xii.1985
(
2♀
1♁
),
18.i-8.ii.1986
(
1♀
),
8.ii-2.iii.1986
(
1♁
),
2-23.iii.1986
(
3♀
2♁
),
23.iii-13.iv.1986
(
5♀
3♁
),
13.iv-4.v.1986
(
5♀
),
14.viii-6.ix.1986
(
2♀
),
27.ix-18.x.1986
(
1♁
),
21.ii-4.iii.1987
(
4♀
1♁
),
14.iii-4.iv.1987
(
2♀
),
4-25.iv.1987
(
2♀
),
25.iv-16.v.1987
(
1♁
),
16.v-6.vi.1987
(
2♁
)
;
1♀
COSTA RICA
,
Guanacaste
,
Bagaces
,
Parque Nacional Palo Verde
,
Sector Catalina
,
Fila Catalina
, LN 257400_400000,
250m
,
11.x.-9.xi.1999
,
I. Jiménez.
Barcoded specimens (
2♀
)
:
1♀
COSTA RICA
,
Guanacaste
,
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
,
Sector Pailas
, Pailas Dos PL12-3,
10.7631°N
85.3344°W
,
820m
,
16-23.vi.2016
,
D. Janzen
,
W. Hallwachs
(
BIOUG
49968
-
E
04)
;
1♀
COSTA RICA
,
Guanacaste
, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste,
Sector Pailas
,
Pailas
, Dos
PL12-3
,
10.7631°N
85.3344°W
,
820m
,
06-13.viii.2015
,
D. Janzen
,
W. Hallwachs
(
BIOUG
52666
-
G
03).