Galeopsomyia elegans 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 elegans

description: Galeopsomyia elegans Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 214, 215, 1047, 1109)
Diagnosis (female). Antenna with F1 4.3×, F2 4.0×, F3 3.8× as long as wide (Fig. 1047); mesoscutellum (Fig. 214) with very weak reticulation and shiny, meshes elongate, submedian grooves distinct and parallel; coxae and tibiae yellowish-brown (Fig. 215); hind femur 4.9× as long as wide; petiole transverse with longitudinal carinae; gaster (Fig. 214) 3.7× as long as wide; gonoplac very long, 1.0× as long as length of hind femur (Fig. 215).
Female holotype: length of body 3.0mm (paratypes 2.7–2.9mm).
Scape yellowish-brown with dorsal edge dark brown, pedicel and flagellum dark brown. Head with frons and vertex black with golden-green tinges, antennal scrobes and median part below level of toruli black, clypeus dark brown. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum golden-green, propodeum black. Legs yellowish-brown with T4 brown. Wings hyaline, veins yellowish-white. Petiole yellowish-brown. Gaster black with metallic tinges; gonoplac black.
Face below level of toruli with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth, frons rugose, antennal scrobes with weak reticulation. Vertex with weak reticulation and shiny. Occipital margin with a carina.
Mesoscutum with strong reticulation, meshes on sidelobes isodiametric, elongate on midlobe; midlobe without median groove, with four adnotaular setae in a single row. Mesoscutellum with very weak reticulation and shiny, meshes elongate; submedian grooves distinct, ±straight and parallel. Axillae with strong reticulation. Dorsellum with weak sculpture. Fore and mid coxae with weak reticulation, hind coxa with strong reticulation. Fore wing with three setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed.
Petiole transverse with longitudinal carinae. Gaster elongate; Gt 1 with weak reticulation and shiny, remaining tergites with rather strong reticulation.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 26; head length, frontal view 42; POL 9; OOL 7.5; lateral ocellus diameter 4; head width 51; mouth width 16; malar space 14; eye length 25; scape length 24; scape width 5.5; pedicel+flagellum length 89; pedicel length 9; pedicel width, dorsal view 4; F1 length 17; F1 width 4; F2 length 16; F2 width 4; F3 length 15; F3 width 4; clava length 29; clava width 5; C3 length 9.5; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 80; mesosoma width 45; midlobe of mesoscutum length 25; mesoscutellum length 27; mesoscutellum width 20; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 10; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part11; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 10; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 2.5; dorsellum length 4; propodeum length 15; costal cell length 41; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2.5; marginal vein length 50; stigmal vein length 11; gaster length 129; gaster width 35; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 8; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 13; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 16; Gt 7 width (measured at base) 10; longest cercal seta length 15; shortest cercal seta length 8.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Heredia, 16km SSE La Virgen, 10º16′N, 84º05′W, 1050-1150m, 9-29. iii.2001, 11_M_NOTN, INBio-OET-ALAS intersect” (NHMUK). Paratypes (2♀, MZLU, NHMUK): 1♀ COSTA RICA, Cartago, Paraíso, Parque Nacional Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte, Torre ICE #32, LN 561600_187400, 1700m, 7.vii-11.viii.2000, malaise trap, D. Rubí; 1♀ COSTA RICA, Cartago, Tapantí, 1100-1200m, iv.2011 - ii.2012, R. Zuñiga.
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 174-175, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024