Galeopsomyia abatis 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 abatis

description: Galeopsomyia abatis Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 44, 45, 999)
Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid, 2.2× as long as wide (Fig. 999); genal carina present; mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (Fig. 44) with a median groove, mesoscutellum with ±distinct submedian grooves and median part with ±elongate meshes (Fig. 44); propodeum with a strong and wide median carina that expands strongly backwards from median part (Fig. 44); hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin; gaster 1.9× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt 1 with a blunt transverse edge dorsally, Gt 2 0.2× as long as Gt 4, tergites with strong reticulation (Fig. 44).
Female holotype: length of body 1.9mm (paratypes 2.0– 2.1mm).
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons metallic bluish-green, antennal scrobes black with metallic tinges and clypeus dark brown; vertex black with metallic blue tinges. Mesosoma metallic bluish-green. Legs with fore and mid coxae black with metallic blue tinges, hind coxa metallic bluish-green; trochanters dark brown; fore and mid femora dark brown with apex yellowish-brown, hind femur metallic bluish-green with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; fore tarsus pale brown with T4 dark brown, mid and hind tarsi yellowish-brown with T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1 metallic bluish-green, Gt 2-5 golden-purple, metallic bluish-green laterally, Gt 6 metallic bluish-green, Gt 7 black; gonoplac black.
Antenna with solid clava. Face below toruli and scrobes with weak reticulation, frons with strong reticulation, clypeal area smooth; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, isodiametric in anterior part of midlobe and elongate in posterior part; midlobe with six setae in one row close to notauli; with a complete but weak median groove. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves ±distinct. Dorsellum with strong reticulation. Propodeum with a strong and wide median carina that expands strongly backwards from median part; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation, hind coxa with a strong carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with three setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below and towards base of wing; costal setal row complete.
Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster ovate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a blunt transverse edge dorsally; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 20; head length, frontal view 33; POL 11.5; OOL 5; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 46; mouth width 14.5; malar space 12.5; eye length 20; scape length 16; scape width 3.5; pedicel+flagellum length 39; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3.5; F1 length 5.5; F1 width 4; F2 length 5.5; F2 width 4.5; F3 length 5; F3 width 5; clava length 13; clava width 6; C3 length 4; spicule length 1; mesosoma length 59; mesosoma width 41; midlobe of mesoscutum length 21; mesoscutellum length 22; mesoscutellum width 23; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 11.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 11; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 13.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 3.5; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 9; costal cell length 36; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 24; stigmal vein length 12; gaster length 68; gaster width 36; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 3; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 13; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 7; Gt
7 width (measured at base) 13; longest cercal seta length 9; shortest cercal seta length 6.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Brazil.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ BRAZIL, Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, xi.1949, F. Plaumann (NHMUK). Paratypes: 3♀ 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 62-63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024