Closterocerus mirandus Hansson 2022, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Hansson, Christer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Eulophidae
Closterocerus
Closterocerus mirandus

description: Closterocerus mirandus sp.nov.   
(Figs 128, 129, 211, 223)  
 Diagnosis. Antenna flattened, F4–5 less flattened, scape widest at apex (Figs 129, 223); pronotal collar with a blunt edge along anterior margin (Fig. 128); midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of weak setae (Fig. 128); fore wing hyaline with an infuscate band below stigmal vein, band reaching to hind margin of wing (Figs 128, 129, 211); hind tarsus white (Fig. 129); length of body female 1.1–1.2mm, male 1.0mm.   
Female holotype: length of body 1.2mm.  
 Antenna dark brown. Frons golden-green. Vertex metallic purple. Mesoscutum, mesoscutellum and dorsellum metallic bluish-purple; propodeum metallic purple. Coxae, femora and hind tibia dark brown; fore and mid tibiae white with basal one-third to two-thirds brown; tarsi white. Fore wing hyaline with an infuscate band below stigmal vein, band reaching to hind margin of wing; hind wing hyaline. Petiole dark brown. Gaster with Gt metallic purple, Gt 3,5,6 metallic blue, Gt 4,7 dark brown.   
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Antenna flattened, F4–5 less flattened, scape widest at apex. Frons with strong reticulation; frontofacial suture V-shaped. Vertex with strong reticulation. Subtorular sutures present. Occipital margin rounded.  
Pronotal collar with a blunt edge along anterior margin. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum with strong reticulation; notauli almost complete, missing in very posterior part; midlobe of mesoscutum with two pairs of weak setae. Dorsellum convex with rather strong reticulation. Propodeum with weak reticulation, without median carina; callus with two setae. Fore wing speculum closed; with a stigmal hairline and with radial cell bare.  
Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster oval-shaped; tergites with strong reticulation.  
Relative measurements: head length dorsal 15; head length frontal 22.5; head width 31.5; POL 6; OOL 3; lateral ocellus maximum width 3; eye length 17.5; malar space 3.5; mouth width 8.5; mesosoma length 35; mesosoma width 27.5; mesoscutellum length 16; mesoscutellum width 16; fore wing length 48; fore wing width 37; marginal vein length 29; postmarginal vein length 2; stigmal vein length 6; fore wing marginal fringe length 2.5; gaster length 42; gaster width 28.  
Variation in paratype material. Length of body 1.1mm. The paratypes are similar to the holotype.  
Male. Length of body 1.0mm. Scape slightly narrower than in female and widest just below apex of scape. Vertex metallic bluish-green. Midlobe of mesoscutum golden-green, sidelobes metallic bluish-purple. Mesoscutellum golden-green. Dorsellum metallic bluish-green. Propodeum metallic purple.  
 Hosts. Unknown.   
 Distribution. Mexico.   
 Material examined.   
Type material. Holotype ♀ “ MEXICO: Michoacan, 2mi. S Carapan, 6.vii.1985, J.B. Woolley, 85/031” (TAMU). Paratypes: 2♀ 1♂ with same label data as holotype (MZLU, TAMU).  
 Etymology. From the Latin mirandus = wonderful.
description: Published as part of Hansson, Christer, 2022, Eulophidae Of Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 4 The Genus Closterocerus Westwood S. Str., pp. 1-137 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 1 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6464279