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Female. Length of body 2.0 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-white with apex yellowish-brown, pedicel and flagellomere 1 yellowish-brown, 2–3 pale brown, 4–6 dark brown (Fig. 588). Mandibles and palpi white. Head black and shiny, lower face yellowish-white with median part yellowish-brown (Fig. 584), pale part close to eyes extends above level of toruli and laterally to hypostomal carina; vertex dark reddish-brown. Frons close to eyes with two rows of setae (Fig. 593). Vertex smooth (Fig. 594). Occipital margin with a carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 594). Mesosoma black and shiny (Fig. 583). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with 14 setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with very weak engraved reticulation (Fig. 595). Dorsellum anteriorly with a groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 789), groove medially 0.3× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum with very weak reticulation (Fig. 789); anteromedially with a semicircular cup; propodeal callus with 12 setae. Legs (Fig. 583): fore and mid legs white to yellowish-white with tarsi yellowish-brown, hind leg with coxa and tarsus yellowish-brown, femur and tibia yellowish-white. Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with two setae close to marginal vein; with 13 admarginal setae, in one row. Petiole anterolaterally with a strong seta. Gaster yellowish-white with dark brown lateral margins, posterior ⅓ pale brown with dark brown lateral margins and with a small round dark brown spot anteromedially (Fig. 586). Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 2.3/1.0/1.3; POL/OOL/POO = 7.4/3.6/1.0; OOL/DO = 0.9; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.3/4.2/3.0; WH/WT = 1.2; PM/ST = 1.4; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.4/2.9/7.1/2.4/1.9/1.0/1.6; LP/WP = 1.0; MM/LG = 1.2. Male. Length of body 1.9 mm. Scape white, slightly expanded and widest in the middle (Fig. 589), sensory pores confined to apicoventral ⅔. Otherwise similar to female except lower face completely white (Fig. 585); hind coxa and basal ½ of femur white, apical ½ of femur, tibia and tarsus yellowish-white; gaster with basal ½ white with black lateral margins, posterior ½ black (Fig. 587). Ratios. LC/WS = 2,8; MM/LG = 1.2.
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Christer Hansson, M. Alex Smith, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs
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Hansson C, Smith M, Janzen D, Hallwachs W (2015) Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica ZooKeys (485): 1–236
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Christer Hansson
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Daniel H. Janzen
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Winnie Hallwachs
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Costa Rica (Guanacaste Province) (Schauff and Janzen 2001).
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Christer Hansson, M. Alex Smith, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs
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Hansson C, Smith M, Janzen D, Hallwachs W (2015) Integrative taxonomy of New World Euplectrus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae), with focus on 55 new species from Area de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica ZooKeys (485): 1–236
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Christer Hansson
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M. Alex Smith
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Daniel H. Janzen
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Winnie Hallwachs
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