Apanteles coffeellae Muesebeck, 1958 Fig. 106

Apanteles coffeellae Muesebeck, 1958: 431.

Type locality.

GUADELOUPE, Lesser Antilles, locality not specified.

Holotype.

♀, NMNH (examined).

Description.

Female. Body color: body mostly dark except for some sternites which may be pale. Antenna color: scape, pedicel, and flagellum pale. Coxae color (pro-, meso-, metacoxa): pale, dark, dark or pale, pale, dark. Femora color (pro-, meso-, metafemur): pale, pale, pale. Tibiae color (pro-, meso-, metatibia): pale, pale, pale. Tegula and humeral complex color: both pale. Pterostigma color: dark. Fore wing veins color: partially pigmented (a few veins may be dark but most are pale). Antenna length/body length: antenna about as long as body (head to apex of metasoma); if slightly shorter, at least extending beyond anterior 0.7 metasoma length. Body in lateral view: not distinctly flattened dorso–ventrally . Body length (head to apex of metasoma): 2.0 mm or less. Fore wing length: 2.0 mm or less. Ocular–ocellar line/posterior ocellus diameter: 2.6 or more. Interocellar distance/posterior ocellus diameter: 1.4-1.6. Antennal flagellomerus 2 length/width: 2.3-2.5. Antennal flagellomerus 14 length/width: 1.4-1.6. Length of flagellomerus 2/length of flagellomerus 14: 2.0-2.2. Tarsal claws: simple. Metafemur length/width: 3.0-3.1. Metatibia inner spur length/metabasitarsus length: 0.4-0.5. Anteromesoscutum: mostly with shallow, sparse punctures (separated by more than 2.0 × its maximum diameter). Mesoscutellar disc: mostly smooth. Number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus: 13 or 14. Maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum: 0.8 or more. Propodeum areola: completely defined by carinae, including transverse carina extending to spiracle. Propodeum background sculpture: partly sculptured, especially on anterior 0.5. Mediotergite 1 length/width at posterior margin: 4.1 or more. Mediotergite 1 shape: mostly parallel–sided for 0.5-0.7 of its length, then narrowing posteriorly so mediotergite anterior width>1.1 × posterior width. Mediotergite 1 sculpture: mostly smooth. Mediotergite 2 width at posterior margin/length: 4.0-4.3. Mediotergite 2 sculpture: mostly smooth. Outer margin of hypopygium: with a wide, medially folded, transparent, semi–desclerotized area; usually with 4 or more pleats (?). Ovipositor thickness: about same width throughout its length. Ovipositor sheaths length/metatibial length: 0.8-0.9. Length of fore wing veins r/2RS: 1.0 or less (?). Length of fore wing veins 2RS/2M: 2.1 or more. Length of fore wing veins 2M/(RS+M)b: 1.1-1.3. Pterostigma length/width: 2.1-2.5. Point of insertion of vein r in pterostigma: about half way point length of pterostigma. Angle of vein r with fore wing anterior margin: more or less perpendicular to fore wing margin. Shape of junction of veins r and 2RS in fore wing: evenly curved.

Male. Differs only in the darker legs, with metafemur and apical half of metatibia dark brown (Muesebeck 1958).

Molecular data.

No molecular data available for this species.

Biology/ecology.

Probably solitary. Hosts: Gracillariidae, Acrocercops dives; Lyonetiidae, Leucoptera coffeella .

Distribution.

Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico. No records known or expected for ACG or Costa Rica.

Comments.

Only known from specimens studied by Muesebeck (1958) when describing the species.