Heterospilus leioenopus 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 : 105-106

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002

publication LSID

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3DF03D80-91C6-4C6C-B526-55E72AE9499F

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Heterospilus leioenopus Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus leioenopus Marsh sp. n. Figure 69

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.5 mm. Color: head usually brown, vertex sometimes darker than face; scape honey yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum entirely brown; mesosoma light brown to brown, often lighter along notauli; metasoma brown to light brown; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow at apex, base and along anterior edge; legs yellow. Head: vertex costate; frons costate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meet ing at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola usually not distinctly margined, occasionally weakly margined apically, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal in length to metasoma, rarely slightly longer.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 23. iii– 13.iv.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 year old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] leioenopus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

6 ♀♀, same data as holotype with dates of 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 21. ii– 14.iii.1987, 18. i– 8.ii.1986 and 26. vii– 14.viii.1986, and second labels [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10yr old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated pert of day, [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible, and [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 0yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated pert of day (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] xii.1989-i.1990 [;] Luis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon [;] 800m, iii-iv 1990 [;] Col. Luis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Biol. Maritza, 600m [;] i.1997, C. Zuniga, Malaise [;] L.N. 326900-373000 #47557 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 3 Feb 78 and 24 Feb 78 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The smooth face and the shorter metasomal tergum 1 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Greek leios meaning smooth and the Greek enope meaning face in reference to the smooth face.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus