Oodia japetus Noyes 2023, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Noyes, John Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Poales
Poaceae
Oodia
Oodia japetus

description: Oodia japetus sp.nov.   
(Figs 447-453)  
Female (holotype): length, including ovipositor, 1.53mm; excluding ovipositor, 1.48mm (CPD).  
Head generally black, frontovertex with a weak metallic, dark blue and green sheen mixed with some purple; area above top of scrobes with a dull purple sheen, area between eye and scrobe coppery purple and brassy, area immediately below eye with a relatively strong brassy and coppery lustre; scrobes with a weak metallic dark blue sheen above top of interantennal prominence, this continued weakly towards eye; interantennal prominence dorsally with a weak purple sheen, slightly greenish and brassy between and below toruli; mouth margin and lower gena coppery purple; temple and posterior part of gena relatively dull mixed coppery purple, brassy and metallic green; radicle pale orange, marked brown; scape pale orange, dorsal margin pale brown; pedicel brown, ventrally pale orange; flagellum mostly dark brown, F1-F4 ventrally pale orange, F5 ventrally orange-brown; mandible dark amber; maxillary palpi pale orange; frontovertex, gena and interantennal prominence with relatively sparse, scattered, inconspicuous brown setae; thorax generally dark brown to black; pronotum with a weak brassy and coppery sheen; mesoscutum a moderate, metallic, dark blue sheen mixed with some purple, posterior margin narrowly coppery purple; tegula orange-brown with a slight brassy sheen; axilla and anterior 0.7X of scutellum with a weak coppery purple and brassy sheen, sides and apical 0.3X of scutellum with a distinct metallic brassy and dark green sheen; metanotum and mesopleuron dark purple-brown with a slight brassy sheen; setae on dorsum of thorax dark brown and quite conspicuous; legs, including coxae, pale orange; wings mainly hyaline, but fore wing (Fig. 451) with apex infuscate in the form a wedge-shaped mark; propodeum slightly shining, dark purple-brown, pale orange anteriorly near spiracle, metallic green and copper on side and submedially, about 12 setae outside spiracle, these not extending down side towards hind coxa; gaster largely dark brown, but Gt1 dorsally pale orange, anterolaterally mixed brassy, coppery, green and blue, sternites pale orange, hypopygium translucent, dark brown areas with a brassy and coppery purple sheen with some purple, green and blue reflections; gonostylus dark brown.  
Head (Fig. 448) about 3.8X as wide as frontovertex, in profile, about 1.8X as high as deep; inner eye margins slightly diverging in front of anterior ocellus; ocelli forming an angle of about 55°; frontovertex with evenly spaced piliferous punctures along inner eye margins and 7 or 8 below anterior ocellus, punctures moderately deep and each about 1.5-2X as wide as eye facet; ocellar area with moderately deep, fairly regular, polygonally reticulate sculpture of mesh size subequal to eye face, sculpture in front of anterior ocellus more irregular and of slightly larger mesh; temple and gena virtually smooth, but with shallow, irregular, longitudinally elongate, polygonally reticulate sculpture; scrobes shallow, well defined, meeting, with shallow, polygonally reticulate sculpture; interantennal prominence rounded dorsally, with shallow, regular, polygonally reticulate sculpture; antenna as in Fig. 447; scape hardly broadened, widest apically, about 4.3X as long as broad; F1 longest, F6 broadest, segments gradually increasing in width and decreasing in length distad, all at least a little longer than broad, linear sensilla present on all funicle segments; clava hardly broadened, about as wide as F6, a little shorter than F4-F6 combined; clypeal margin very slightly and evenly concave. Relative measurements: HW 79, HH 75, FV 21, POL 8, OOL 1, OCL 4.5, AOL 9, EL 52, EW 39, MS 27.5, SL 39, SW 9.  
Thorax (Fig. 452) with slightly transversely elongate, polygonally reticulate sculpture on pronotum that is generally of similar mesh size, but conspicuously shallower than that on frontovertex; mesoscutum with polygonally reticulate to imbricate-reticulate sculpture that is of slightly larger mesh size than that on frontovertex and clearly shallower; axilla with similar sculpture to mesoscutum, but slightly deeper; scutellum with conspicuously deeper and coarser sculpture than that on mesoscutum, but of similar mesh size, apical 0.3X and side with progressively shallower sculpture; visible part of mesoscutum about 1.9X as broad as long; scutellum about 1.1X as long as broad; setae on mesoscutum moderately dense, separated by a little less than their own lengths and of more or less uniform length, those on scutellum of similar density, but clearly longer especially towards apex; fore wing with venation and setation as in Figs 450, 451; propodeum (Fig. 452) medially with some irregular, very shallow sculpture medially in posterior half; setae outside spiracle extending towards posterior margin, but not down side. Relative measurements: FWL 114.5, FWW 44.5; HWL 82, HWW 20.  
Gaster very slightly shorter than thorax with hypopygium (Fig. 449) reaching about 0.6X towards apex; syntergum about 0.6X as long as mid tibia; ovipositor (Fig. 453) slightly exserted, the exserted part about 0.2X as long as mid tibial spur or a little less than 0.1X as long as mid tibia. Relative measurements: OL 50.5, GL 13 [MT 47].  
Variation. Only holotype examined.  
Male. Unknown.  
DISTRIBUTION. Costa Rica.  
HOSTS. Unknown.  
MATERIAL EXAMINED.  
 Type material. Holotype E: COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, Est. Biol. Monteverde, 10°20’N 84°49’W, 1540m, 18-24.ii.2004 (C. Hansson). Holotype in NHMUK.
description: Published as part of Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), pp. 1-921 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 2 (11) on pages 177-178, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8074943