Heterospilus guapilensis 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 : 233-234

Heterospilus guapilensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 157

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 4-6 flagellomeres white, apical one darker; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons weakly granulate or smooth; face granulate; 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 about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 22-24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, propodeum with weak but distinct tubercles 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 slightly 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 costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Limon [;] 16km West Guapiles [;] 400m, April 1989 [;] P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] guapilensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Heredia, Chilamate [;] 75m, xii 89-iii 1990 [;] Hanson & Godoy (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, 5km. N. [;] Puerto Jimenez, 10m [;] I-II-1993 P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, xi.1995 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 04, #351 [;] 15.ii.1994 [;] Project ALAS (M.04.351) (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is similar to Heterospilus chocho but differs in the shorter ovipositor, the brown stigma and the indistinctly margined areola of the propodeum.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the locality of the holotype, Guapiles, in Limon Province.