Galeopsomyia carballoi 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 carballoi

description: Galeopsomyia carballoi Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 326, 327, 761)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with constriction between C1 and C2, F4 pale brown, F5–6 yellowish-brown (Fig. 761); genal carina present; mesoscutellum (Fig. 326) with outer margin of submedian grooves absent, grooves diverging towards both anterior and posterior parts, median part with weak reticulation, lateral parts rugose, without median groove; dorsellum with median carina; fore wing with nine setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein (Fig. 327); propodeum (Fig. 326) with strong irregular carinae, callus with seven setae; petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part; gaster (Fig. 326) 2.8× as long as wide, with strong reticulation, Gt1 with weak reticulation in anterior half, medio-basal Gt1 with short longitudinal carina laterally, Gt7 1.7× as long as wide.
Female holotype: length of body 3.2mm.
Scape dark yellowish-brown with apico-dorsal part dark brown, pedicel and F1–F3 dark brown, F4 pale brown, F5–6 yellowish-brown. Head with frons and vertex golden-green, clypeus dark brown. Thoracic dorsum golden. Legs with fore coxa golden-green, mid coxa pale brown, hind coxae black with apex yellowish-brown; trochanters, femora and tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt1 golden, Gt2-5 golden-purple, Gt6-7 golden; gonoplac black.
Antenna with constriction between C1 and C2. Frons with median part including scrobes with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, lateral parts rugose; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, especially strong on midlobe close to notauli, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, ±elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a median groove in posterior half, and with 18 scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with very weak reticulation on median part and shiny, lateral parts rugose; outer margin of submedian grooves absent; with 20 setae scattered over lateral rugose parts. Dorsellum with weak sculpture and shiny, with median carina. Propodeum with a strong and wide median carina; with strong irregular carinae and weak reticulation; callus with seven setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with nine setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.
Petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 with short longitudinal carina laterally; tergites with strong reticulation, Gt 1 with weak reticulation in anterior half.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 30; head length, frontal view 52; POL 11; OOL 7; lateral ocellus diameter 6.2; head width 67; mouth width 22; malar space 19; eye length 29; scape length 26; scape width 6; pedicel+flagellum length 82; pedicel length 9; pedicel width, dorsal view 5.5; F1 length 18; F1 width 6; F2 length 15.5; F2 width 6; F3 length 12.5; F3 width 6; clava length 24; clava width 7; C3 length 8; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 89; mesosoma width 59; midlobe of mesoscutum length 33; mesoscutellum length 34; mesoscutellum width 30; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 6; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 12; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 7; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 14; costal cell length 45; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 45; stigmal vein length 12; gaster length 138; gaster width 50; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 11.5; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 21; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 24; Gt
7 width (measured at base) 14; longest cercal seta length 14; shortest cercal seta length 7.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Alajuela, San Carlos, Parque Nacional Arenal, Sendero Pilón, LN 269100_ 457900, 600m, 23-30.xi.1999, malaise trap, G. Carballo (NHMUK).
Etymology. Named in honour Gerardo Carballo, former parataxonomist at INBio and collector of material of this and many other Costa Rican Eulophidae.
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 264-265, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024