Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica Author Hansson, Christer Author Smith, M. Alex Author Janzen, Daniel H. Author Hallwachs, Winnie text ZooKeys 2015 485 1 236 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.485.9124 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.485.9124 1313-2970-485-1 F18CFD3D10294E8AA2E8CEF1AFDBAC8F F18CFD3D10294E8AA2E8CEF1AFDBAC8F Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Eulophidae Euplectrus testaceipes (Cameron) Figures 6-8, 9-11, 12-13, 644-650, 656-658, 797 Rekabia testaceipes Cameron, 1904: 66. Lectotype ♂ (BMNH), examined. Euplectrus testaceipes (Cameron) ( Kerrich 1974 : 636). Elachistus carinatus Cameron, 1913: 126. Lectotype ♀ (BMNH), examined. Synonymized by Boucek (1977 : 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 x as long as length of dorsellum; propodeum with a wide median carina (Fig. 797); gaster with anterior 1/2 white with dark brown lateral margins that are broken posteriorly, posterior 1/2 black, in female with apex reddish-brown (Fig. 647); male antenna with scape slightly expanded, widest in the middle, 3.0 x as long as wide (Fig. 650); petiole 1.0 x as long as wide in female, 1.1 x 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 1/2 , with two irregular rows in upper 1/2 (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 x as long as wide; with rather strong engraved reticulation (Fig. 658). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a wide groove (Fig. 797), medially 0.4 x 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 1/2 white with dark brown lateral margins that are broken posteriorly, posterior 1/2 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 ), Guyana ( Cameron 1913 ), Nicaragua ( Cameron 1904 ).