Galeopsomyia verbesinae 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 verbesinae

description: Galeopsomyia verbesinae Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 620, 621, 878, 996)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2 (Fig. 878); genal carina present and strong; mesoscutellum (Fig. 620) with weak reticulation on median part, meshes elongate, and with a complete median groove, submedian grooves distinct, straight and diverging slightly towards posterior part; dorsellum with median carina; petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part; gaster (Fig. 620) 2.9× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with a sharp edge shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 24), tergites with weak reticulation, gonoplac elongate, as long as length of hind femur (Fig. 621).
Female holotype: length of body 2.6mm (paratypes 2.4mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons metallic bluish-green, clypeus dark brown, antennal scrobes black; vertex metallic bluish-purple. Thoracic dorsum metallic bluish-green. Legs with fore and hind coxae metallic bluish-green, mid coxa black; trochanters pale brown; femora with basal two-thirds black with golden-green tinges and apical one-third yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt1,6 metallic bluish-green, Gt2-5 golden-purple, Gt7 black; gonoplac black.
Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with a strong genal carina, reaching to level of lower margin of eye. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle; with a carina between posterior ocelli in posterior part.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a weak median groove in posterior half, with 12 scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part and with a complete median groove, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight and diverging slightly towards posterior part; with seven setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with weak sculpture and shiny, with median carina. Propodeum medially with strong irregular carinae and laterally with strong reticulation; callus with six 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 broken.
Petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt1 with a sharp edge shaped like an inverted U; tergites with weak reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 23; head length, frontal view 41; POL 10.5; OOL 6; lateral ocellus diameter 4.5; head width 54; mouth width 15; malar space 15.5; eye length 24; scape length 18; scape width 4.5; pedicel+flagellum length 54; pedicel length 7; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 8.5; F1 width 5; F2 length 8.5; F2 width 5; F3 length 8; F3 width 5.5; clava length 18.5; clava width 6; C3 length 6.5; spicule length 2; mesosoma length 71; mesosoma width 49; midlobe of mesoscutum length 28.5; mesoscutellum length 26; mesoscutellum width 24; 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 10; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 5; dorsellum length 3.5; propodeum length 6; costal cell length 34; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 34; stigmal vein length 10.5; gaster length 121; gaster width 42; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 11; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 21; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 17; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 13; longest cercal seta length 14; shortest cercal seta length 7.
Male. Length of body 1.2–2.0mm.
Antenna (Fig. 996) with scape widest in the middle; plaque brown and situated just above of the middle but does not reach apex; dorso-basal whorls of long setae present on F1–F4 and C, with a ventro-basal whorl of long setae on C1. Gaster long ovate. Otherwise as in female.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 20; head length, frontal view 38; head width 50; mouth width 12.5; malar space 13.5; eye length 21; scape length 17; scape width 5; plaque length 7; pedicel length 7; pedicel+flagellum length 73; F1 length 5; F1 width 4.5; F2 length 9; F2 width 4.5; F3 length 11; F3 width 4; F4 length 11.5; F4 width 3.5; clava length 28.5; clava width 3.5; mesosoma length 68; mesosoma width 44; gaster length 75; gaster width 34; longest subbasal seta on F1, length 30.
Hosts. Reared from leaf gall induced by an unidentified Cecidomyiidae on Verbesina turbacensis (Asteraceae).
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Bosque Nacional Diriá, Cerro Retallano, Alrededores Torre de Control de Incendio, LN 238550_358650, 600-700m, 18.ix-18.x.2001, malaise trap, I. Jiménez (NHMUK). Paratypes: 3♀ 14♂ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Reserva Forestal Monte Alto, Hojancha, 17.viii.2001, from cecid gall Verbesina turb., I. Jimenez (MZLU, MZUCR, NHMUK).
Etymology. Named after the host plant of the gall from which this species was reared
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 467-468, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024