Galeopsomyia beltanis 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 beltanis

description: Galeopsomyia beltanis Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 300, 301, 750)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with solid clava (Fig. 750); genal carina present and strong, reaching to level of lower margin of eye; mesoscutellum (Fig. 300) with submedian grooves slightly diverging towards posterior part, median part with strong reticulation with very elongate meshes, appearing striate, and with median groove indicated but weak; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum (Fig. 300) with strong carinae and strong reticulation, callus with six setae; petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part; gaster (Fig. 300) 2.2× as long as wide; medio-basal Gt1 with a transverse sharp edge dorsally; gastral tergites with strong reticulation.
Female holotype: length of body 2.5mm.
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons golden-green with scrobes black with metallic tinges, clypeus dark brown; vertex golden-green with blue tinges. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum metallic greenish-blue, propodeum golden-green. Legs with fore and hind coxae metallic greenish-blue, mid coxa black with greenish-blue tinges; trochanters yellowish-brown; femora with basal two-thirds black with metallic tinges and apical one-third yellowish-brown; tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 pale brown. Petiole black with metallic tinges. Gaster with Gt1 metallic greenish-blue, Gt2-4 black with sides metallic greenish-blue, Gt5-6 golden-green, Gt7 black; gonoplac black.
Antenna with solid clava. Face below level of toruli with strong reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina reaching level of lower margin of eye. Vertex with strong 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 very weak median groove in posterior half, and with 14 scattered adnotaular setae. Mesoscutellum with strong reticulation, meshes very elongate and surface appearing striate; with median groove indicated but weak; submedian grooves slightly diverging towards posterior part; lateral parts with eight scattered setae. Dorsellum with strong sculpture, with median carina. Propodeum with strong and wide median carina; part between median and paraspiracular carinae with strong irregular carinae and strong reticulation; callus with six setae. Coxae with strong reticulation. Fore wing with five setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row broken.
Petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 with a sharp transverse edge dorsally; tergites with strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 27; head length, frontal view 42; POL 10.5; OOL 7; lateral ocellus diameter 5; head width 58; mouth width 18; malar space 15; eye length 23; scape length 20; scape width 4.5; pedicel+flagellum length 58; pedicel length 8; pedicel width, dorsal view 4.5; F1 length 8.5; F1 width 6; F2 length 9.5; F2 width 5.5; F3 length 8.5; F3 width 5.5; clava length 20; clava width 6; C3 length 6; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 80; mesosoma width 52; midlobe of mesoscutum length 33; mesoscutellum length 29; mesoscutellum width 25; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 10.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 12; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 5; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 13; costal cell length 40; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3; marginal vein length 40; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 102; gaster width 47; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 10; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 15; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 11; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 14; longest cercal seta length 13; shortest cercal seta length 5.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, Santo Domingo, INBio-Parque, 12.ii.2011, J.S. Noyes (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 246-247, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024