Galeopsomyia crotonae 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 crotonae

description: Galeopsomyia crotonae Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 358, 359, 1069)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with solid clava (Fig. 1069); genal carina absent; mesoscutellum (Fig. 358) with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate, submedian grooves ±parallel, with a weak median groove in anterior half; dorsellum without median carina; propodeum (Fig. 358) short, with strong reticulation without irregular carinae, callus with two setae; hind margin of hind coxa with a short longitudinal carina close to base; gaster (Fig. 358) 2.6× 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 2.0mm (paratypes 1.4–1.9mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel brown, flagellum dark brown. Face below level of toruli golden-green, clypeus dark brown, frons and vertex metallic bluish-green. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum metallic bluish-green, propodeum golden-green. Legs with fore and hind coxae golden-green, mid coxa black; trochanters yellowish-brown; femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster metallic bluish-green; gonoplac black.
Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons with strong reticulation, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; without genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without median groove, with six scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves straight and parallel; with ten scattered setae over lateral parts. Dorsellum with strong reticulation, without median carina. Propodeum with a triangular median carina; with strong reticulation; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation; hind margin of hind coxa with a short longitudinal carina close to base. Fore wing with two setae on dorsal part in basal half of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row broken.
Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a carina shaped like an inverted U; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 23; head length, frontal view 35; POL 9; OOL 4.5; lateral ocellus diameter 4.5; head width 44.5; mouth width 16; malar space 11.5; eye length 22; scape length 17; scape width 4.5; pedicel+flagellum length 48; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3.5; F1 length 7.5; F1 width 4; F2 length 8.5; F2 width 4.5; F3 length 7; F3 width 5; clava length 16; clava width 5.3; C3 length 6; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 53; mesosoma width 41.5; midlobe of mesoscutum length 21; mesoscutellum length 21; mesoscutellum width 20.5; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 10.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 4.5; dorsellum length 2; propodeum length 7; costal cell length 29; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 26; stigmal vein length 10; gaster length 84; gaster width 32; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 8; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 11; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 12.5; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 16; longest cercal seta length 11; shortest cercal seta length 5.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Reared from leaf gall induced by unidenitified Cecidomyiidae on Croton schiedeanus (Euphorbiaceae). The gall is spherical, 3–7 mm in diameter, and detachable from the leaf.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Tirimbina, ii.2004, from spherical leaf gall on Croton Schn., Ley & Hanson (NHMUK). Paratypes (3♀, MZLU, NHMUK): 1♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Estación Biológica La Selva, 10º26’N, 84º01’W, 100-200m, 30-31.iii.2002, swept, J.A. Azofeifa; 1♀ from same locality as previous but collected 28-29.ii.2008; 1♀ COSTA RICA, Limón, Puerto Viejo, Hotel Punta Cocles, 27.ii.1991, J.S. Noyes.
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 287-289, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024