Galeopsomyia estera 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 estera

description: Galeopsomyia estera Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 100, 101, 703, 906, 934)
Diagnosis (female). Flagellum short, clava strong and solid (Fig. 703); clypeus dark brown; mesoscutellum (Fig. 100) with strong reticulation, submedian grooves weak, wide apart and diverging towards posterior part, with a very weak median groove; hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin; gaster (Fig. 100) 2.1× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt 1 without transverse edge or carina dorsally, and with very weak reticulation and shiny, Gt with strong reticulation.
2-7
Female holotype: length of body 2.2mm.
Scape yellowish-brown with dorsal edge brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons metallic bluish-green, antennal scrobes black, clypeus dark brown; vertex black with metallic blue tinges. Mesoscutum golden-green, mesoscutellum and propodeum metallic bluish-green. Legs with coxae golden-green; trochanters dark brown; femora metallic bluish-green with apex yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-white, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1,5,6 metallic bluish-green, Gt 2-4 golden-green in anterior half, metallic purple in posterior half, Gt 7 black; gonoplac black.
Antenna with solid clava. Frons with strong reticulation, parts below eye and scrobes with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth; with a very short genal carina close to mouth opening. Vertex with strong reticulation, meshes transverse.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without median groove, with nine adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; with a very weak median groove; submedian grooves weak, wide apart and diverging towards posterior part. Dorsellum with strong sculpture. Propodeum with a strong median carina that expands in posterior part; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation; hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin. Fore wing with four setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below; costal setal row unbroken.
Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster ovate-elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 without transverse edge or carina dorsally, with very weak reticulation and shiny, remaining tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 25; head length, frontal view 41; POL 11.5; OOL 5; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 51; mouth width 15; malar space 14.5; eye length 22; scape length 18; scape width 5; pedicel+flagellum length 45; pedicel length 7.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4.5; F1 length 6.5; F1 width 5; F2 length 6; F2 width 5; F3 length 5.5; F3 width 6; clava length 15; clava width 7; C3 length 5; spicule length 1; mesosoma length 69; mesosoma width 48.5; midlobe of mesoscutum length 28; mesoscutellum length 25; mesoscutellum width 23.5; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 12; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part10.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 15; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 3; dorsellum length 3; propodeum length 9; costal cell length 35; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 33; stigmal vein length 10; gaster length 88; gaster width 43; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 5; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 21; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 6.5; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 14.5; longest cercal seta length 10; shortest cercal seta length 4.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Estación Maritza, LN 326900_ 373000, 500m, 25.i-2. ii.2001, Thomas, Rio, Moraga (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 100-101, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024