Heterospilus artemis 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 : 316-317

Heterospilus artemis Marsh sp. n. Figure 211

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, terga 1-3 sometimes lighter brown or yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow or bicolored, fore and mid coxae and trochanters yellow, femora, tibiae and tarsi light brown, hind coxa brown, trochanters yellow, femur (except at extreme base), tibia and tarsus brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, bulging behind eye, width nearly equal to eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 14 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth or very weakly granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting before prescutellar furrow in medial longitudinal groove; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, areola margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or as long as vein 3RSa and slightly longer than width of stigma, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum weakly costate basally, smooth apically; anterior transverse groove weak or absent; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte, 19km [;] S 3km W Empalme, 2600m [;] ix.1992, P. Hanson, Malaise; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] artemis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 2km W. Empalme [;] 2300m, June 1995 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW).

Comments.

The median apical grove on the mesoscutum where the notauli meet, the short antenna and the wide temple are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis.