Scaphytopius hansoni Arias-Paco & Godoy, 2025

Scaphytopius hansoni Arias-Paco & Godoy View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 4A–F View FIGURE 4 , 9G View FIGURE 9 , 10G View FIGURE 10 , 11K View FIGURE 11 , 12K View FIGURE 12 , 13K View FIGURE 13 )

Description. Length of male 4.41 mm. General appearance brown. Crown 1.4 x longer than basal width between eyes, light brown, with two pale white longitudinal bands in center, separated by black line extending to two-thirds of crown length; after this, bands merge into a single band at apex ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ). Face entirely black, with two transverse white bands in shape of inverted V at apex of frontoclypeus ( Fig. 4C View FIGURE 4 ), and faint white band on outer margin of gena extending to eye. Forewings light brown; anteapical cells with dark spots and macula in discal cell, with 2 circular white spots in clavus, and 6–7 veinlets ( Fig. 4B View FIGURE 4 ); veins dark brown. Legs with femora black, anterior and middle tibiae light brown, posterior tibiae black. Tarsi light brown.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view triangular, apex rounded; multiple macrosetae at apex ( Fig. 9G View FIGURE 9 ). Subgenital plate triangular, much wider at base than apex, almost as wide as long, with row of thin, elongated setae at apex ( Fig. 10G View FIGURE 10 ). Connective in ventral view straight in middle and slightly elevated toward junction with styles ( Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4 ). Style in ventral view with apophysis short, robust, with no spines, square-shaped on inner margin; space between preapical lobe and apophysis C-shaped. Paraphyses in ventral view fused at base, diverging widely and abruptly beyond midlength ( Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4 ). Aedeagus very short, L-shaped in lateral view ( Fig. 4E View FIGURE 4 ); preatrium absent; dorsal apodeme longer than shaft, with slight curvature toward apex ( Fig. 4E View FIGURE 4 ); shaft in lateral view straight and tubular, in apical view in gonopore area with two small lateral spines and third, larger dorsal spine ( Fig. 4F View FIGURE 4 ). Gonopore subapical, at base of dorsal spine.

Diagnosis. Connective straight in middle and slightly elevated toward junction points with styles ( Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4 ); straighter and less curved than in S. cyma . In dorsal view style apophysis without spine on inner margin; apophysis in ventral view square-shaped; paraphyses in dorsal view fused at base, diverging widely and abruptly beyond midpoint of their length, giving appearance of inverted U ( Fig. 4D View FIGURE 4 ).

Distribution. Costa Rica.

Biology. Unknown.

Etymology. Dedicated to Paul Hanson, entomologist who has worked on the description of numerous species of microhymenopteran in Costa Rica.

Material examined. Holotype. ♂. Costa Rica, San José, Cerro de la Muerte . 30.I.1993. INBIO CRI002 082768 ( MNCR).