Closterocerus huggerti Hansson 2022, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Hansson, Christer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Closterocerus
Closterocerus huggerti

description: Closterocerus huggerti sp.nov.   
(Figs 110, 111)  
 Diagnosis. Scape and pedicel distinctly flattened, flagellum only weakly flattened, scape widest in median part (Fig. 111); ocelli small (Fig. 110); pronotal collar without a carina along anterior margin (Fig. 110); midlobe of mesoscutum with three pairs of setae (Fig. 110); hind tarsi white (Fig. 111); fore wing hyaline with an infuscate band below stigmal vein, speculum open below and towards base of wing (Fig. 110); length of body female 1.2–1.4mm.   
Female holotype: length of body 1.4mm.  
 Antenna dark brown. Frons dark brown with golden tinges. Vertex metallic bluish-green. Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and dorsellum metallic bluish-purple. Propodeum black with metallic tinges. Coxae, femora, mid and hind tibiae dark brown; fore tibia white with base dark brown; tarsi white. Fore wing hyaline with an infuscate band below stigmal vein; hind wing hyaline. Petiole dark brown. Gaster with Gt 1&5 metallic blue, Gt 2-3 metallic bluish-purple with median part metallic purple, Gt 4&7 metallic purple, Gt 6 golden-green.   
Antenna with scape and pedicel distinctly flattened, flagellum only weakly flattened. Frons and vertex with strong reticulation. Frontofacial suture V-shaped. Subtorular sutures present. Occipital margin rounded.  
Pronotal collar without a carina along anterior margin. Mesoscutum with weak reticulation; notauli distinct throughout; midlobe with three pairs of setae. Mesoscutellum convex with very weak reticulation. Dorsellum convex and smooth. Propodeum smooth, without median carina; callus with two setae. Fore wing speculum open below and towards base of wing; with a stigmal hairline and with radial cell bare.  
Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster ovate; tergites with weak reticulation.  
Relative measurements: head length dorsal 18; head length frontal 22; head width 33; POL 7.5; OOL 3.5; lateral ocellus maximum width 2; eye length 17; malar space 5.5; mouth width 9; mesosoma length 40; mesosoma width 27; mesoscutellum length 17; mesoscutellum width 16.5; fore wing length 56; fore wing width 33; marginal vein length 31; postmarginal vein length 1.5; stigmal vein length 6; fore wing marginal fringe length 3.5; gaster length 45; gaster width 32.  
Variation in paratype material. Length of body: 1.2–1.4mm. Vertex metallic bluish-green or metallic purple. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum metallic bluish-purple or purple.  
Male. Unknown.  
 Hosts. Unknown.   
 Distribution. Peru.   
 Material examined.   
Type material. Holotype ♀ “ PERU: Loreto, Iquitos, 9.ii.1984, Lars Huggert ” (MZLU). Paratypes: 2♀ “ PERU: Cusco, Quillabamba, 23.xii.1983, Lars Huggert ” (MZLU).  
 Etymology. Named after the Swedish entomologist Lars Huggert, collector of the type specimens.   
 Comments. Left antenna is missing in holotype.
description: Published as part of Hansson, Christer, 2022, Eulophidae Of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 4 The Genus Closterocerus Westwood S. Str., pp. 1-137 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 1 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6464279