Heterospilus rojasi 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 : 276

Heterospilus rojasi Marsh sp. n. Figure 188

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head dark brown with eye orbits, lower face and malar space often yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown, preapical 3-5 flagellomeres white, apical 3-5 brown; mesosoma and metasoma dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate with weak striae or rugae behind ocelli; frons granulate-striate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, not bulging, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.0-2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola weakly margined, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with distinct tubercle just above hind coxae. 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, width nearly 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, granulate at apex; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor equal to 1/2 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Limon [;] Sector Cocori, 100m [;] 30km N Cariari, i.1995 [;] E. Rojas, Malaise #4526 [;] L.N. 286000-567500; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] rojasi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon [;] 30km N. Cariari, 100m [;] Sector Cocori, Malaise [;] iii.1995, E. Rojas #4524 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia: [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Apr. 1996, INBio-OET; second label - 1 Abril 1996 [;] Bosque primario [;] M/12/613 (INBC).

Comments.

The bicolored head and white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the collector of the type series, E. Rojas.