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Galeopsomyia nigrocyanea

  • 1. Scientific Associate Biological Museum (Entomology), Lund University Sölvegatan 37, SE- 22362 Lund, Sweden & Natural History Museum, Insects Division Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
  • 2. School of Biology and Zoology Museum Biodiversity and Tropical Ecology Research Center (CIBET) University of Costa Rica, San Pedro de Montes de Oca 11501 - 2060, San José, Costa Rica

Description

Galeopsomyia nigrocyanea (Ashmead)

(Figs 676, 677)

Gyrolasia nigrocyaneus Ashmead 1886:134. Lectotype ♀ (USNM type no. 8099) designated by LaSalle & Schauff (1992:30), examined through images. U.S.A. (Florida).

Galeopsomyia nigrocyanea (Ashmead), (Peck 1951:443).

Diagnosis (female). Antennae missing in single examined specimen; mesoscutum and mesoscutellum with strong reticulation with slightly elongate meshes (Fig. 676); propodeum with strong reticulation and with a very strong median carina that expands in posterior part (Fig. 676); hind coxa with a carina along posterior margin; petiole not visible; gaster about 3.2× as long as wide, tergites completely reticulate with very strong reticulation, medio-basal Gt 1 with a rectangular incision but without carinae or edges (Fig. 676); body black without metallic tinges (Figs 676, 677).

Male. Unknown.

Hosts. Reared from galls induced by Belonocnema treatae Mayr (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on Quercus sp. (Gordh 1979).

Distribution. U.S.A. (Florida) (Ashmead 1886).

Material examined. Lectotype female in USNM, through images.

Remarks. The lectotype female is slightly damaged with most parts of antennae and left wing pair missing.

Notes

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 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8372024

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM
Scientific name authorship
Ashmead
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Eulophidae
Genus
Galeopsomyia
Species
nigrocyanea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Galeopsomyia nigrocyanea (Ashmead, 1886) sec. Hansson & Hanson, 2023

References

  • Ashmead, W. H. 1886. Studies on the North-American Chalcididae with descriptions of new species from Florida. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 13: 125 - 135.
  • LaSalle, J. & Schauff, M. E. 1992. Preliminary studies on neotropical Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): Ashmead, Cameron, Howard and Walker species. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 27 (1): 1 - 47.
  • Peck, O. 1951. Superfamily Chalcidoidea. (In: Muesebeck, C. F. W., Krombein, K. V. & Townes, H. K. (Editors). Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico - synoptic catalog.) Agriculture Monographs. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 2: 410 - 594.
  • Gordh, G. 1979. Chalcidoidea. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Smith, D. R. & Burks, B. D., Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., pp. 743 - 1043.