Heterospilus dieciseis Marsh
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/293F8E56-1D3C-4858-9270-934463280DA0 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:act:293F8E56-1D3C-4858-9270-934463280DA0 |
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scientific name |
Heterospilus dieciseis Marsh |
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Heterospilus dieciseis Marsh sp. n. Figure 231
Female.
Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: body brown, apical metasomal tergum yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown, apical 5-7 flagellomere sometimes dark; wing veins light brown, stigma light brown or yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than ⅓ eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate or smooth; notauli weakly scrobiculate or pertly smooth, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, smooth basally. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than twice apical width; second tergum smooth; anterior transverse groove weakly present, straight; posterior transverse groove weakly present; third tergum smooth entirely; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.
Holotype female.
Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Turrialba, CATIE [;] 14-15.iii.1990 [;] 700m, J.S. Noyes; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] dieciseis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.
Paratypes.
1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Braulio Carillo N. P. [;] 8.2km E tunnel [;] 15-V-1988 P. Hanson (TAMU).
Comments.
This species is similar to Heterospilus catiensis but is distinguished by the smooth metasomal terga 2-7 and the shorter ovipositor.
Etymology.
The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.
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