ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera)
Author
Noyes, John Stuart
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Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera
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Cercobelus godoyae
Noyes & Hanson
(Figs 1690-1693; Hab. E 250)
Cercobelus godoyae
Noyes & Hanson, 1996:108
, 110-111.
Holotype
E,
Costa Rica
, NHMUK, examined.
DIAGNOSIS.
Female
(length about
2.2mm
): scape amber-testaceous; scutellum black with coppery purple sheen; all coxae dark brown; legs largely dark brown, fore tibiae and tarsus mostly pale orange, mid tibia partly pale orange, tarsus pale orange, hind femur dusky pale orange at base, hind tibia dark brown; fore wing (Fig. 1690) infuscate across wing below marginal vein; mandible with two very short sharp teeth and a slightly rounded, truncate, upper tooth with a weakly serrate margin; scrobes shallow, distinct, meeting dorsally; antenna (Fig. 1693) with scape about 5.2X as long as broad; pedicel about 1.9X as long as broad; funicle segments subequal, all clearly longer than broad; F1 with linear sensilla; clava very nearly as long as F2-F4 combined; mesoscutum about 2-2.5X as long as pronotum medially in dorsal view; marginal vein (Fig. 1691) punctiform, not quite touching anterior wing margin; hind wing about 3X as long as broad; propodeum nearly one-third as long as scutellum, with a pair of posteriorly diverging, submedian carinae; spiracle separated from anterior margin by about 0.5X its own diameter; gaster about as long as thorax; apex of syntergum smooth; hypopygium (Fig. 1692) longitudinally divided with elongate anterior
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apodemes.
Male
: unknown.
DISTRIBUTION.
Costa Rica
.
HOSTS. Reared from
Katacephala
Crawford
(
Hemiptera
:
Liviidae
) on
Eugenia carthagenensis
(Jacq.)
(
Myrtales
:
Myrtaceae
) (
Noyes & Hanson, 1996
).
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
Type material.
Holotype
E:
COSTA RICA
,
Cartago
, Tobasi,
1500m
, ex
Katacephala
on
Myrtaceae
,
6.vi.1993
(P. Hanson, D. Hollis).
Paratypes
:
COSTA RICA
, 2E, same data as
holotype
.
Holotype
in
NHMUK
,
paratypes
in
INBio
and
NHMUK
.
COMMENTS. See comments under
tartarus
(p. 617).