Galeopsomyia palotis 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 palotis

description: Galeopsomyia palotis Hansson sp.nov.
(Figs 568, 569, 923, 1089)
Diagnosis (female). Antennal clava solid, flagellum short, funiculars as long as wide (Fig. 1089); genal carina present; entire midlobe of mesoscutum with scattered setae, leaving a median bare stripe (Fig. 568); mesoscutellum (Fig. 568) with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with coarse sculpture, with a very weak median groove, submedian grooves with outer margin indistinct, straight and parallel; dorsellum with median carina; propodeum (Fig. 568) with strong reticulation and irregular carinae, callus with five setae; gaster (Fig. 568) 1.8× as long as wide, medio-basal Gt1 with a strong carina shaped like an inverted U (as in Fig. 26) and with short longitudinal carinae pointing backwards from carina, tergites with strong reticulation, apex of gonoplac blunt (Fig. 569).
Female holotype: length of body 1.7mm.
Scape yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellum brown. Head with frons metallic bluish, antennal scrobes black and clypeus dark brown; vertex metallic blue. Mesoscutum and mesoscutellum metallic bluish-purple; propodeum black with metallic tinges. Legs with coxae, trochanters and femora dark brown; tibiae and tarsi yellowish-white to yellowish-brown, T4 pale brown. Petiole black. Gaster dark brown, Gt1 with purple tinges; gonoplac black.
Antenna with solid clava. Frons with strong reticulation, above scrobes with weak reticulation, clypeus smooth; with genal carina. 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 bare median stripe and with 15 scattered setae on either side of bare stripe. Mesoscutellum with weak reticulation on median part, lateral parts with coarse sculpture; with a very weak median groove; submedian grooves with outer margin indistinct, straight and parallel; with nine scattered setae. Dorsellum with very weak sculpture and shiny, with median carina. Propodeum with a strong median carina that expands posteriorly; with strong irregular carinae and strong reticulation; callus with five setae. Fore and hind coxae with strong reticulation, mid coxa with weak reticulation. Fore wing with 3&4 setae on dorsal surface of submarginal vein; speculum closed; costal setal row broken.
Petiole transverse with strong sculpture on dorsal part. Gaster ovate-elongate; medio-basal Gt1 with a strong carina shaped like an inverted U and with short longitudinal carina from the carina pointing backwards; tergites with strong reticulation; apex of gonoplac blunt.
Relative measurements: head length, dorsal view 20; head length, frontal view 32; POL 8.5; OOL 4.5; lateral ocellus diameter 3.5; head width 40; mouth width 11; malar space 11; eye length 19; scape length 14; scape width 3; pedicel+flagellum length 35; pedicel length 6.5; pedicel width, dorsal view 3; F1 length 5; F1 width 3; F2 length 5; F2 width 4; F3 length 4.5; F3 width 4.5; clava length 11.5; clava width 5; C3 length 4.5; spicule length 1.5; mesosoma length 52; mesosoma width 35; midlobe of mesoscutum length 17; mesoscutellum length 20; mesoscutellum width 19; median part of mesoscutellum width (measured medially) 7; median part of mesoscutellum, width in anterior part 6.5; median part of mesoscutellum, width in posterior part 6.5; lateral part of mesoscutellum, width (measured medially) 4; dorsellum length 3; propodeum length 9; costal cell length 30; costal cell width (measured at widest part) 2; marginal vein length 25; stigmal vein length 6; gaster length 65; gaster width 37; Gt 2 length (measured medially) 7.5; Gt 4 length (measured medially) 13.5; Gt 7 length (measured medially) 6.5; Gt
7 width (measured at base) 11; longest cercal seta length 10; shortest cercal seta length 4.
Male. Unknown.
Hosts. Unknown.
Distribution. Costa Rica.
Material examined.
Holotype ♀ COSTA RICA, Puntarenas, Estación Altamira, Estación, 9º02’N, 83º00’W, 1450m, 7.ii-5.iii.2002, yellow pan trap, C. Hansson & Parataxonomos (MZLU).
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 433-434, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024