Heterospilus mam Marsh sp. n. Figure 171

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 1 at apex, tergum 2 medially and terga 5-7 yellow; scape yellow with weak lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 1-2 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly granulate or partially smooth; frons weakly granulate or smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli smooth, meeting at scutellum in unsculptured area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina, occasionally with weak carinae on each side; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS-La Selva. 100m [;] I-II-1993, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] mam [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R. F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 3km. SW. Rincon, 10m [;] ii.1992, Paul Hanson (ESUW).

Comments .

The smooth mesoscutal lobes, the short ovipositor and the white annulus at the apex of the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Mam, a Mayan people of Guatemala.