Galeopsomyia bicolor 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 bicolor

description: Galeopsomyia bicolor Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 304, 305, 753, 963)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2 (Fig. 753); with a short genal carina close to mouth opening; mesoscutum and mesoscutellum (Fig. 304) with distinctly different colours; mesoscutellum (Fig. 304) 0.9× as long as wide and flattened, submedian grooves distinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part, with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; dorsellum with median carina; median propodeum (Fig. 304) with strong irregular carinae and anterolaterally with strong reticulation without carinae, callus with two setae; petiole very short, just a narrow band; gaster (Fig. 304) ovate, 1.6× as long as wide, tergites with strong reticulation.
Female holotype: length of body 1.9mm (paratypes 1.5mm).
Scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum brown. Head with frons and vertex metallic bluish-green, clypeus dark brown, antennal scrobes black. Mesoscutum golden-purple; mesoscutellum and propodeum golden-green. Legs with fore coxa dark brown with metallic tinges, mid coxa brown, hind coxa black with metallic tinges and with apex yellowish-brown; trochanters yellowish-brown; femora yellowish-brown with base brownish; tibiae yellowish-white; T1–3 yellowish-white, T4 yellowish-brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt 1-2 metallic blue, remaining tergites golden-purple; gonoplac brown with ventral margin black.
Antenna with a weak constriction between C1 and C2. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with a short genal carina close to mouth opening. Vertex with weak reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture inside ocellar triangle; with a carina between posterior ocelli in posterior part.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe; midlobe with a complete median groove, with ten scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, straight and diverging towards posterior part; with 14 setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with weak reticulation, with median carina. Propodeum with a strong median carina that expands anteriorly and posteriorly; medially with strong irregular carinae and anterolaterally with strong reticulation without carinae; callus with two setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with five setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row unbroken.
Petiole very short. Gaster ovate; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 20.5; head length, frontal view 37; POL 9; OOL 6.5; lateral ocellus diameter 4.5; head width 51; mouth width 16.5; malar space 11; eye length 22.5; scape length 18; scape width 4; pedicel+flagellum length 54; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 7.5; F1 width 4; F2 length 10; F2 width 4.5; F3 length 8; F3 width 4.5; clava length 18; clava width 6; C3 length 5; spicule length 2; mesosoma length 63; mesosoma width 47; midlobe of mesoscutum length 22.5; mesoscutellum length 24.5; mesoscutellum width 26; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 9.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 8; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 11.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 5.5; dorsellum length 3.5; propodeum length 10.5; costal cell length 32; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2.2; marginal vein length 24; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 64; gaster width 41; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 7; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 12; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 5; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 14; longest cercal seta length 13; shortest cercal seta length 6.
Male. Length of body of body 1.5mm.
Antennal scape (Fig. 963) with plaque dark brown and situated close to, just below, apex; dorso-basal whorls of long setae present on F1–F4 and on C1, and with a ventro-basal whorl of long setae on C1. Gaster long ovate. Otherwise as in female.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 17; head length, frontal view 30; head width 41; mouth width 12; malar space 8.5; eye length 18; scape length 14; scape width 3.5; plaque length 3.5; pedicel length 5; pedicel+flagellum length 65; F1 length 4.5; F1 width 4; F2 length 6.5; F2 width 4; F3 length 9.5; F3 width 4; F4 length 9.5; F4 width 3.5; clava length 29; clava width 3.2; mesosoma length 51; mesosoma width 39; gaster length 45; gaster width 31; longest subbasal seta on F1, length 36.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Volcán Cacao, Cerro Pedregal, 1000m, ii-iv.1989, I.D. Gauld (NHMUK). Paratypes (3♀ 1♂, MZLU, NHMUK): 1♀ 1♂ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Estación Maritza, 10°58’N, 85°29’W, 700m, 21.ii.2005, J.S. Noyes; 1♀ COSTA RICA, Guanacaste, Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), “no date”; 1♀ COSTA RICA, San José, Ciudad Colón, Hacienda El Rodeo, 16.ii.1991, J.S. Noyes.
Etymology. Name referring to different colours of mesoscutum and mesoscutellum.
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 248-250, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024