Heterospilus seis 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 : 407-408

Heterospilus seis Marsh sp. n. Figure 280

Female.

Body size: mm. Color: head with vertex and temple dark brown, face light brown; mesosoma and metasoma dark brown, apical metasomal terga slightly lighter brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face weakly striate and partially smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, 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; 18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r 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, length slightly greater than 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 terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 27. ix– 18.x.1986; second label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous [;] forest. Sun; third label (white, printed) - SE 7-O [;] 27. ix– 18.x.86; fourth label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] seis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The short ovipositor, brown flagellum and presence of the basal median carina on the propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The species name is an arbitrary combination of letters.