Review of Grotiusomyia Girault (Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae), an exclusively New World genus, including 17 new species
Author
Hansson, Christer
text
Zootaxa
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2023-05-04
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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 flavimacula
sp. nov.
Figs 6
,
28
,
55
,
81
,
98
Diagnosis
. Mandibles yellowish-brown with base brown, with a row of small teeth at apex (as in
Fig. 112
); flagellum dark brown, 1.1× as long as width of mesoscutum, F4 1.3× as long as wide, apex of clava pointed (
Figs 6
,
55
); frons dark with two white spots lateral to toruli and close to eye margin (
Fig. 98
); frons between scrobes and vertex with strong reticulation (
Figs 81
,
98
); occipital margin with a sharp edge behind ocellar triangle (
Fig. 81
); mesoscutum and mesoscutellum with same colour and reticulation (
Fig. 28
); mesoscutellum convex; dorsellum ±flat, with weak reticulation, medio-posterior part protruding, with postero-lateral parts incised; fore wing with ten setae in apico-dorsal part of costal cell, completely hyaline, speculum small (
Fig. 6
); fore and mid coxae yellowish-brown (
Fig. 6
); gaster (
Fig. 28
) 1.7× as long as wide; Gt
1
0.4× as long as length of gaster, dorsal surface smooth and shiny, posterior margin straight; Gt
6
0.1× as long as length of gaster with anterior part 1.6× as wide as width of posterior part, posterior margin straight with sharp edge.
Description (female
holotype
).
Length
1.8 mm
. Frons between scrobes and eyes and vertex with strong reticulation, scrobes smooth. Mandibles with a row of small teeth at apex. Occipital margin with a sharp edge behind ocellar triangle. Dorsellum ±flat, with weak reticulation, medio-posterior part protruding, with postero-lateral parts incised. Propodeal callus with eight setae. Fore wing with five setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; with 18 admarginal setae; costal cell with 25 setae in two rows on ventral surface, apico-dorsal margin with ten setae; speculum small and closed below. Gaster ovate; Gt
1
smooth and shiny, remaining tergites with weak reticulation; Gt
1
and Gt
6
with posterior margin straight.
Colour. Head metallic bluish-green, scrobes black with metallic tinges, frons with two white spots lateral to toruli and close to eye margin. Mandibles yellowish-brown with base brown.Antennae with scape yellowish-brown, pedicel pale brown, flagellum dark brown. Mesosoma black with metallic green tinges; dorsellum metallic purple. Fore and mid leg yellowish-brown, hind leg yellowish-brown with coxa black with metallic tinges. Gaster with Gt
1
metallic bluish-green, remaining tergites dark brown to black with metallic tinges.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 19; head length, frontal view 30; head width 44; POL 9; OOL 5.5; mouth width 10.5; malar space 7; eye length 21; lateral ocellus diameter 5; scape length 15; scape width 3.5; pedicel length 6; pedicel width. dorsal view 4; flagellum length 38; F1 length 7; F1 width 4; F2 length 5.5; F2 width 5; F3 length 6; F3 width 5; F4 length 6; F4 width 4.5; clava length 11; clava width 4.5; pronotum length 18; pronotum width 29; mesosoma length 65; mesosoma width 35; midlobe of mesoscutum length 18; mesoscutellum length 20; mesoscutellum width 19; propodeum length 14; hind tibia length 36; hind tibial spur1 length 9; hind tibial spur2 length nm; hind tarsus length 30; hind basitarsus length 9.5; fore wing length 105; fore wing width 50; costal cell length 30; costal cell width 3; marginal vein length 33; postmarginal vein length 15.5; stigmal vein length 11; Gt
1
length 23; Gt
6
length 5.5; Gt
6
width at base 21; Gt
6
width at apex 13; gaster length 60; gaster width 35.5.
Male
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
Costa Rica
.
Etymology
. From the Latin
flavus
= yellow, and
macula
= spot, referring to yellowish spots on frons.
Material
.
Holotype
female:
COSTA RICA
,
Alajuela
,
Estación Biológica San Ramón
,
10°13'N
,
84°37'W
,
900m
, viii-ix.1997,
P. Hanson
(
NHMUK
).