Galeopsomyia larshuggerti Hansson & Hanson 2023, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Hansson, Christer
name: Hanson, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Galeopsomyia
Galeopsomyia larshuggerti

description: Galeopsomyia larshuggerti Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 142, 143, 1024)
Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid (Fig. 1024); genal carina absent; mouth opening very wide, 1.5× malar space (Fig. 1024); mesoscutellum (Fig. 142) with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves indistinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part; hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin; gaster (Fig. 142) 2.4× as long as wide, Gt 2 0.21× as long as Gt 4.
Female holotype: length of body 1.6mm.
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum pale brown. Head with frons dark brown with metallic bluish-purple tinges, clypeus yellowish-brown, antennal scrobes dark brown; vertex dark brown. Thoracic dorsum dark brown with metallic tinges. Legs with coxae dark brown; trochanters yellowish-brown; femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-white; T1–3 yellowish-white, T4 pale brown. Petiole dark brown. Gaster dark brown; gonoplac dark brown.
Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons with strong reticulation, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with weak reticulation outside ocellar triangle, inside ocellar triangle with strong reticulation.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without a median groove, with seven scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves indistinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part; with median groove in anterior two-thirds; anterior pair of setae in median part of mesoscutellum. Dorsellum with strong sculpture. Propodeal callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation; hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with three setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below and towards base of wing; costal setal row broken.
Petiole transverse. Gaster elongate; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 16; head length, frontal view 30; POL 9.5; OOL 4.5; lateral ocellus diameter 3.5; head width 38.5; mouth width 15.5; malar space 10.5; eye length 17.5; scape length 13.5; scape width 3.3; pedicel+flagellum length 33; pedicel length 5.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3; F1 length 5; F1 width 3.5; F2 length 4; F2 width 4; F3 length 4; F3 width 4.2; clava length 12; clava width 5; C3 length 5; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 46; mesosoma width 36; midlobe of mesoscutum length 17; mesoscutellum length 18.5; mesoscutellum width 17.5; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) nm; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part nm; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part nm; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) nm; dorsellum length 2; propodeum length 5; costal cell length 27; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 18; stigmal vein length 7; gaster length 68; gaster width 28; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 3; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 14.5; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 9; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 11; longest cercal seta length nm; shortest cercal seta length nm.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Peru.
Material examined. Holotype ♀ PERU, Madre de Dios, Puerto Maldonado, 2.i.1984, Lars Huggert (MZLU).
Etymology. Named in honour of Lars Huggert, collector of material from Ecuador and Peru ..
Remarks. The holotype specimen is bleached by light.
description: Published as part of Hansson, Christer & Hanson, Paul E., 2023, EULOPHIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 5: The genus Galeopsomyia Girault, pp. 1-743 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 3 (1) on pages 127-128, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024