Galeopsomyia altura 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 altura

description: Galeopsomyia altura Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 266, 267, 739)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with distinct constriction between C1 and C2 (Fig. 739); with genal carina; mesoscutellum (Fig. 266) with submedian grooves distinct and parallel, median part with weak reticulation hence shiny, lateral parts with strong reticulation; mid coxa yellowish-brown (Fig. 267); propodeum (Fig. 266) with strong reticulation and a few irregular carinae, callus with five setae; gaster (Fig. 266) 2.2× as long as wide, tergites with strong reticulation.
Female holotype: length of body 2.1mm (paratype 2.4mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Face below level of toruli golden-green, clypeus dark brown, frons metallic bluish-green, antennal scrobes black with metallic tinges. Mesoscutum with sidelobes black and midlobe metallic bluish-green, mesoscutellum and propodeum golden-green with blue tinges. Legs with fore coxa black with posterior part dark brown, mid coxa yellowish-brown, hind coxa yellowish-brown with posterior-basal half black with metallic tinges; trochanters, femora, tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1-6 metallic bluish-green, Gt 2-5 also with dorsal part with metallic purple tinges, Gt
7 black; gonoplac black.
Antenna with a distinct constriction between C1 and C2. Frons with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle; with a carina between posterior ocelli in posterior part. Occipital margin ±carinate.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with median groove indicated in posterior half, with eight adnotaular setae in two rows. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight and parallel; with five setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with weak sculpture, with an indistinct median carina. Propodeum with a strong and wide median carina that expands posteriorly; with a few strong irregular carinae and strong reticulation; callus with five setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with five 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 two short longitudinal carinae laterally; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 22; head length, frontal view 37; POL 9.5; OOL 7; lateral ocellus diameter 4.2; head width 51; mouth width 13; malar space 12; eye length 21; scape length 20; scape width 4.5; pedicel+flagellum length 58; pedicel length 7.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 8.5; F1 width 5; F2 length 9; F2 width 5; F3 length 9.5; F3 width 5; clava length 21; clava width 5.5; C3 length 7.5; spicule length 3; mesosoma length 63; mesosoma width 45; midlobe of mesoscutum length 24; mesoscutellum length 24.5; mesoscutellum width 21; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 9.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 9.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 9.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 4; dorsellum length 3; propodeum length 11; costal cell length 36; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 39; stigmal vein length 9; gaster length 89; gaster width 40; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 8; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 14.5; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 13; Gt
7 width (measured at base) 12; longest cercal seta length 15; shortest cercal seta length 6.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, San Vito, Estación Biológica Las Alturas, 8°57’N, 82°50’W, 1500m, 17-18.ii.2012, J.S. Noyes (NHMUK). Paratype: 1♀ with same label data as holotype (NHMUK).
Etymology. Name referring to collecting locality, Las Alturas.
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 224-225, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024