Heterospilus zoque 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 : 302-304

Heterospilus zoque Marsh sp. n. Figure 206

Female.

Body size: 4.0-4.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 with yellow spots on each side of median brown spot, terga 5-7 yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored with yellow at apex and base; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly granulate, smooth near eyes; frons weakly granulate or smooth; face weakly granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, 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; 26-28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate, sometimes partially smooth on median lobe; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granulate or smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron weakly granulate, smooth just above precoxal sulcus; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate or granulate-rugose, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, propodeum with tubercle just above hind coxa at base of petiole. 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 smooth except for costate posterior transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. [;] Las Alturas, 1500m [;] xii.1991, Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] zoque [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Puntar. Golfo Dulce [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, vi-viii 1989 [;] Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The weakly granulate head and the bicolored stigma and metasomal tergum 2 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Zoque, an indigenous people of Mexico.