Heterospilus kuna Marsh
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F77099C3-D88C-413D-88D6-1B7FDA0397EA |
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Heterospilus kuna Marsh |
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Heterospilus kuna Marsh sp. n. Figure 66
Female.
Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and temple honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown, metasoma dark brown, apical terga slightly lighter; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate medially, smooth near eyes; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view somewhat bulg ing, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance nearly 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granular; 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, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor 3/4 length of metasoma.
Holotype female.
Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Limon [;] 30km N Cariari, 100m [;] Sector Cocori, Malaise [;] iii.1995, E. Rojas #4524 [;] L.N. 286000-567500; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] kuna [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.
Paratypes.
Known only from the holotype.
Comments.
The granulate mesopleuron, smooth face, single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow and the presence of hind wing vein SC+R are distinctive for this species.
Etymology.
Named for the Kuna, an indigenous people of Panama.
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