Euplectrus edithae Schauff 2001

Female. Length of body 2.4 mm. Antenna with scape yellowish-brown with base yellowish-white, pedicel yellowish-brown, flagellomeres pale brown (Fig. 697). Mandibles and palpi yellowish-white. Head including lower face black and shiny (Fig. 693). Frons close to eyes with three rows of setae (Fig. 703). Vertex with very weak reticulation inside ocellar triangle, smooth outside triangle (Fig. 704). Occipital margin with a weak carina behind ocellar triangle (Fig. 704). Mesosoma dark brown and shiny (Fig. 692). Each sidelobe of mesoscutum with nine setae. Scutellum 1.0× as long as wide; with weak engraved reticulation, posterior margin smooth (Fig. 705). Dorsellum anteriorly with a narrow groove that is divided by longitudinal carinae (Fig. 799), groove medially 0.3× as long as length of dorsellum. Propodeum smooth (Fig. 799); anteromedially with a transverse semicircular cup; propodeal callus with 12 setae. Legs yellowish-brown (Fig. 692). Fore wing: costal cell with two rows of setae on ventral surface, and margin with four setae close to marginal vein; with 12 admarginal setae, in one row. Gaster yellowish-brown with dark brown lateral margins (Fig. 695). Ratios. HE/MS/WM = 1.7/1.3/1.0; POL/OOL/POO = 21.0/16.0/1.0; OOL/DO = 2.3; WE/WF/WH/HH = 1.0/2.8/4.6/3.3; WH/WT = 1.1; PM/ST = 1.3; TS1/TS2/LT/LT1/LT2/LT3/LT4 = 4.2/2.6/7.6/3.2/1.4/1.0/1.6; LP/WP = 0.8; MM/LG = 1.0. Male. Length of body 2.0 mm. Scape narrow and widest in apical part (Fig. 698), sensory area confined to apicoventral ½ and with same colour as remaining scape (yellowish-white). Gaster in anterior ½ yellowish-brown in median ⅓ and dark brown laterally, posterior ½ dark brown (Fig. 696). Otherwise similar to female. Ratio. LC/WS = 4.1.

Costa Rica (Puntarenas and San José Provinces).