Heterospilus huetares Marsh

Marsh, Paul M., Wild, Alexander L. & Whitfield, James B., 2013, The Doryctinae (Braconidae) of Costa Rica: genera and species of the tribe Heterospilini, ZooKeys 347, pp. 1-474 : 360-361

Heterospilus huetares Marsh sp. n. Figure 244

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, propleuron yellow, apical metasomal terga yellow; scape yellow or light brown without lateral brown stripe; flagellum entirely brown; wing veins brown, stigma light brown or yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 26-31 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose-costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow usually with 3 cross carinae, rarely with only one distinct carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined granulate, rarely smooth, basal median carina present but short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with or slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-5 costate or granulate basally, smooth apically; terga 6-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] 1-15 ix 1992, P. Hanson [;] huertos Malaise trap [;] set by G. Wright; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] huetares [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva [;] 50-150m, 10.26 N [;] 84.01 W, Aug. 1992 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS-La Selva, 100m [;] IV-V-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS - La Selva, 100m [;] 16-30 IX.1992 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, Puerto Jimenez [;] 10m, VI-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The brown flagellum and scape and the ovipositor being longer than the metasoma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Huetares, an indigenous people of Costa Rica.