Apanteles coffeellae Muesebeck 1958

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.