Galeopsomyia neotropicalis 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 neotropicalis

description: Galeopsomyia neotropicalis Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 534, 535, 846)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with solid clava (Fig. 846); genal carina strong, reaching to level of lower margin of eye; mesoscutellum (Fig. 534) with median part with strong reticulation, meshes ±isodiametric, without median groove, lateral parts rugose, submedian grooves with outer margin absent, diverging towards posterior part; dorsellum without median carina; propodeum (Fig. 534) with strong reticulation, callus with seven setae; gaster (Fig. 534) 1.9× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with a sharp edge shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 24), Gt1–5 with weak reticulation, Gt6–7 with strong reticulation.
Female holotype: length of body 2.2mm (paratypes 1.7–2.2mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons and vertex metallic greenish-blue, antennal scrobes black with metallic tinges, clypeus dark brown. Thoracic dorsum golden-green with blue tinges. Legs with coxae golden-green; trochanters dark brown; fore and mid femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown, hind coxa golden-green with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster metallic greenish-blue; gonoplac black.
Antenna with solid clava. Frons with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth and scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina reaching to level of lower margin of eye. Vertex with strong reticulation, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation; midlobe with 16 scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with median part with strong reticulation, meshes ±isodiametric, without median groove, lateral parts rugose, submedian grooves with outer margin absent, diverging towards posterior part; with 10 scattered setae on lateral parts. Dorsellum with strong reticulation, without median carina. Propodeum with strong reticulation; callus with seven 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 closed; costal setal row broken below.
Petiole short. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a sharp edge shaped like an inverted U; Gt1–5 with weak reticulation, Gt6–7 with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 24; head length, frontal view 37; POL 10.5; OOL 5; lateral ocellus diameter 5; head width 50; mouth width 15; malar space 15; eye length 22.5; scape length 17; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 46; pedicel length 6; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 7; F1 width 4; F2 length 7; F2 width 4.5; F3 length 6.5; F3 width 5; clava length 16; clava width 6; C3 length 4.5; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 62; mesosoma width 48; midlobe of mesoscutum length 27; mesoscutellum length 24.5; mesoscutellum width 27; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 11; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part12; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 12; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 5; dorsellum length 3; propodeum length 8.5; costal cell length 34; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 31; stigmal vein length 10; gaster length 96; gaster width 52; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 9.5; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 19; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 11; Gt
7 width (measured at base) 14; longest cercal seta length 13; shortest cercal seta length 6.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Santo Domingo, INBio-Parque, 1-12.iv.2002, J.S. Noyes & D. Rubi (NHMUK). Paratypes (10♀, MZLU, MZUCR, NHMUK): 1♀ from same locality as holotype but collected 13.ii.2010; 6♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Cañas, Río Chiquito, LN 292500_ 417000, 410m, 25.vii.2003, J. Azofeifa; 1♀ COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, Parque Nacional Corcovado, Estación Agujas, Cerro Quebraditos, LS 274300_ 521400, 782m, 25.v-17.vii.2001, malaise trap, J. Azofeifa; 1♀ ECUADOR, Napo, Lumbaqui, 10-11.iii.1983, Lars Huggert; 1♀ PERU, Loreto, Iquitos, Rio Nanay, 4-6.ii.1984, Lars Huggert.
Etymology. Named after distribution.
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 409-410, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024