Euplectrus paulhansoni Hansson

Female. Length of body 2.3 mm. Antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellum dark brown (Fig. 484). Mandibles dark yellowish-brown to brown and palpi yellowish-white. Head including lower face black and shiny (Fig. 480). Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 489). Vertex with very weak reticulation (Fig. 490). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 490). Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 479). Scutellum 0.9× as long as wide; with very weak reticulation, median part partly smooth (Fig. 491). Dorsellum along anterior margin with a deep groove that is divided by three weak longitudinal carinae (Fig. 776), groove medially 0.3× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth and shiny (Fig. 776); anteromedially with a semicircular cup that is strongly raised in posterior part; propodeal callus with six setae. Legs (Fig. 479): fore and mid legs yellowish-white; hind leg with coxa dark brown, femur, tibia and tarsus yellowish-brown. Fore wing: costal cell with one complete row of setae on ventral surface, and margin with seven setae in apical ½; with 23 admarginal setae, in basal ½ in one row in apical ½ in two rows. Gaster with anterior ½ dark brown with a white marking shaped like an hour-glass with distal part wider than basal part, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 482). Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.1/1.1/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 9.0/5.8/1.0; OOL/DO = 1.2; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.6/4.7/3.6; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.7; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.0/2.2/6.4/2.0/2.3/1.0/2.0; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.1. Male. Length of body 1.9 mm. Scape yellowish-brown, slightly enlarged, widest medially, with sensory pores limited to apical ⅔ of ventral margin, sensory area yellowish-brown (Fig. 485). Similar to female except shorter gaster. Ratios. LC/WS = 3.3; MM/LG = 1.2.

Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Heredia and Puntarenas Provinces).