Heterospilus ramirezi 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 : 146-147

Heterospilus ramirezi Marsh sp. n. Figure 98

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically; mesosoma brown with mesoscutum honey yellow; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2-4 lighter brown, tergum 2 sometimes yellow, terga 5-7 honey yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, covered by sparse short setae; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r nearly as long as vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, 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 weak or absent; third tergum costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 31 [;] 2.vi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FPM31); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] ramirezi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Guanacaste Prov. [;] Cerro el Hacha [;] NW Volcan Orosi [;] 300m, 1988 (ESUW).

Comments.

The light brown or honey yellow body color and the strongly rugose mesoscutum which is covered by sparse short hair are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for a good friend from Costa Rica, William Ramirez.