Galeopsomyia moradis 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 moradis

description: Galeopsomyia moradis Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 518, 519, 843)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a distinct constriction between C1 and C2 (Fig. 843); clypeus black; genal carina present; mesoscutellum (Fig. 518) with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves distinct, straight, parallel and wide apart; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum (Fig. 518) with strong reticulation, median carina short and ±triangular, and mainly concave, callus with two setae; gaster (Fig. 518) 1.9× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with a carina shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 26), tergites with strong reticulation.
Female holotype: length of body 1.9mm (paratypes 1.7–2.4mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons with golden-green and metallic blue tinges, antennal scrobes and clypeus black; vertex black with metallic bluish tinges. Mesosoma black with golden-green tinges. Legs with coxae black with metallic tinges; trochanters pale brown; femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown, hind femur with metallic tinges on dark parts; tibiae and tarsi yellowish-brown to yellowish-white, T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1 metallic greenish-blue, Gt2-6 black with metallic tinges, Gt
7 black; gonoplac black.
Antenna with a distinct constriction between C1 and C2. Face below level of toruli with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, 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.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a weak median groove in posterior half, with ten scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight, parallel and wide apart; with an indistinct median groove; with eight setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with strong sculpture, with median carina. Propodeum with a wide, concave median carina that expands strongly towards posterior part; with strong reticulation; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with six setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.
Petiole transverse, dorsal part with strong sculpture. Gaster ovate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a carina shaped like an inverted U; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 21; head length, frontal view 34; POL 9.5; OOL 6; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 45; mouth width 14; malar space 12.5; eye length 18; scape length 16; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 50; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3.5; F1 length 7; F1 width 4; F2 length 7; F2 width 4; F3 length 6.5; F3 width 4; clava length 19; clava width 4.5; C3 length 6.5; spicule length 2; mesosoma length 58; mesosoma width 41; midlobe of mesoscutum length 24.5; mesoscutellum length 22; mesoscutellum width 19; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 8.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 8.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 9; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 3.5; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 8; costal cell length 32; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 31; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 77; gaster width 40; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 10; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 15; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 7.5; Gt
7 width (measured at base) 12; longest cercal seta length 11; shortest cercal seta length 5.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Estación Cacao, 10º55’N, 85º30’W, 1100m, 19-20.ii.2005, J.S. Noyes (NHMUK). Paratypes: 7♀ with same label data as holotype (MZLU, NHMUK).
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 397-398, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024