Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservacion Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica
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Hansson, Christer
Author
Smith, M. Alex
Author
Janzen, Daniel H.
Author
Hallwachs, Winnie
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.485.9124
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.485.9124
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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
).