Galeopsomyia coccolobae 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 coccolobae

description: Galeopsomyia coccolobae Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 4, 342, 343, 776, 969)
Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid (Fig. 776); genal carina present; mesoscutellum (Fig. 342) with strong reticulation and with a complete median groove, meshes elongate, submedian grooves distinct, straight and ±parallel; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum (Fig. 342) with strong reticulation, callus with four setae; gaster (Fig. 342) 2.1× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with longitudinal carinae laterally, tergites with strong reticulation.
Female holotype: length of body 2.6mm (paratype 2.3mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel pale brown, flagellum brown. Head with frons golden-green, clypeus dark brown, antennal scrobes black; vertex metallic bluish-green. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum metallic bluish-green, propodeum golden. Legs with fore and mid coxae dark brown with metallic tinges, hind coxa metallic green; trochanters brown; femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt1 metallic bluish-green with posterior margin golden-purple, Gt2-4 golden-purple, Gt5-7 dark brown with metallic tinges; gonoplac dark brown.
Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with weak 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. Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe, midlobe rugose close to notauli; midlobe with a median groove in posterior two-thirds, with 16 scattered setae on rugose parts. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation and with a complete median groove, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight and ±parallel; with ten setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with strong reticulation, with median carina. Propodeum with strong reticulation; callus with four setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with four setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum partly open below; costal setal row broken.
Petiole transverse. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt1 with longitudinal carinae laterally; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 24; head length, frontal view 41; POL 10.5; OOL 5; lateral ocellus diameter 5; head width 54; mouth width 16; malar space 15.5; eye length 25; scape length 18; scape width 5; pedicel+flagellum length 53; pedicel length 7; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 7; F1 width 5; F2 length 8; F2 width 5; F3 length 8; F3 width 5.5; clava length 20; clava width 6; C3 length 6; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 75; mesosoma width 49; midlobe of mesoscutum length 30; mesoscutellum length 28; mesoscutellum width 26.5; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 9.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 10.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 6; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 11; costal cell length 37; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 33; stigmal vein length 10.5; gaster length 104; gaster width 49; Gt2 length (measured medially) 10; Gt4 length (measured medially) 14; Gt7 length (measured medially) 15; Gt7 width (measured at base) 16; longest cercal seta length 18; shortest cercal seta length 6.
Male. Length of body of body 1.6mm.
Antenna (Fig. 969) with scape widest in median part; plaque dark brown and situated medially; dorso-basal whorls of long setae present on F1–F4 and on C1. Gaster long ovate. Otherwise as in female.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 18; head length, frontal view 30; head width 39; mouth width 13; malar space 10.5; eye length 17; scape length 13; scape width 5; plaque length 6; pedicel length 6; pedicel+flagellum length 55; F1 length 4; F1 width 3.5; F2 length 6.5; F2 width 3.5; F3 length 9; F3 width 3; F4 length 8.5; F4 width 3; clava length 17.5; clava width 3; mesosoma length 52; mesosoma width 32; gaster length 52; gaster width 24; longest subbasal seta on F1, length 30.
Hosts. Reared from blister-like leaf galls induced by unidentified Cecidomyiidae (probably Ctenodactylomyia) on Coccoloba uvifera (Polygonaceae) (Fig. 4).
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Limón, Parque Nacional Cahuita, 0m, 29.iv.1988, from Coccoloba leaf gall, Paul Hanson (NHMUK). Paratypes: 1♀ 1♂ with same label data as holotype (MZLU, 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 277-278, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024