Galeopsomyia weinmanniae 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 weinmanniae

description: Galeopsomyia weinmanniae Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 614, 615, 871)
Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava with distinct constriction between C1 and C2 (Fig. 871); genal carina present; mesoscutellum (Fig. 614) with median part with weak reticulation and with a very weak median groove in anterior half, lateral parts with very strong reticulation with numerous white setae all over; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum (Fig. 614) with strong reticulation and some irregular carinae, callus with three setae; gaster (Fig. 614) 3.5× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with longitudinal carinae laterally, tergites with very strong and large-meshed reticulation, Gt7 1.7× as long as width at base.
Female holotype: length of body 3.5mm.
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel brown, flagellum dark brown. Head golden-green, frons below eyes golden-red, clypeus dark brown. Thoracic dorsum golden-green. Legs with fore and hind coxae metallic bluish-green, mid coxa black with golden-green tinges; trochanters, femora and tibiae yellowish-brown; T1–3 yellowish-brown, T4 brown. Petiole black. Gaster with Gt1 metallic bluish-green, remaining tergites golden-green; gonoplac yellowish-brown.
Antenna with distinct constriction between C1 and C2. Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose and with strong reticulation, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation; with genal carina. Vertex with strong reticulation outside ocellar triangle, with wrinkled sculpture and strong reticulation inside ocellar triangle. Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes isodiametric on sidelobes, elongate on midlobe, midlobe ±rugose on part close to notauli; midlobe with a complete median groove, with 25 scattered setae on rugose parts. Mesoscutellum with median part with weak reticulation and shiny, lateral parts with strong reticulation, meshes elongate; submedian grooves subdivided by carinae, curved and diverging towards both anterior and posterior parts; with 25 setae scattered over lateral parts. Dorsellum with strong reticulation, with median carina. Propodeum with a strong median carina that expands in posterior part; with strong irregular carinae and reticulation; callus with three setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with 6&7 setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum open below; costal setal row unbroken.
Petiole very short, just a narrow band. Gaster elongate; medio-basal Gt 1 with longitudinal carinae laterally; tergites with very strong and large-meshed reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 31; head length, frontal view 47; POL 13; OOL 7; lateral ocellus diameter 6; head width 62; mouth width 22; malar space 18; eye length 27; scape length 25; scape width 5; pedicel+flagellum length 69; pedicel length 7.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 4.5; F1 length 11; F1 width 5; F2 length 13.5; F2 width 5; F3 length 10; F3 width 5; clava length 21; clava width 6.5; C3 length 6.5; spicule length 1; mesosoma length 90; mesosoma width 60; midlobe of mesoscutum length 33; mesoscutellum length 36; mesoscutellum width 26; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 7.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 10; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 7.5; dorsellum length 5.5; propodeum length 12.5; costal cell length 47; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 3.5; marginal vein length 42; stigmal vein length 16; gaster length 162; gaster width 46; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 11; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 22; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 34; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 20; longest cercal seta length 15; shortest cercal seta length 8.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Reared from a stem gall (stem swelling) induced by an unidentified Cecidomyiidae on Weinmannia sp. (Cunoniaceae).
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Cartago, 4km NE Cañon, Genesis II, 2300m, 5.ii.2013, from Weinmannia stem gall, M. Gates (NHMUK).
Etymology. Named after the host plant of the gall from which this species was reared.
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 468-469, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024