Heterospilus veintitres 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 : 423

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52232D18-DD78-4A84-882C-ACA428B4A9D2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/46E7CF19-5855-4F46-A307-1AEAE06FF76D

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:46E7CF19-5855-4F46-A307-1AEAE06FF76D

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scientific name

Heterospilus veintitres Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus veintitres Marsh sp. n. Figure 293

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: body dark brown; scape and flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, 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; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli weakly scrobiculate anteriorly, smooth posteriorly, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area except for 2 converging carinae; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, short, 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 greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 weakly granulate; ovipositor equal to half length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Guanac. [;] Estac. Mengo, S.W. [;] Volcan Cacao, 1100m [;] IX-X 1989; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] veintitres [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Braulio Carrillo N.P. [;] 250-500m IV.10.85 [;] Henri Goulet (AEIC).

Comments.

The granulate metasomal terga 4-6, the two carinae where notauli meet and the single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus