Heterospilus flavidus 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 : 68-69

Heterospilus flavidus Marsh sp. n. Figure 42

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum yellow at base to brown at apex; mesoscutum and propleuron yellow, propodeum and mesopleuron darker honey yellow; metasomal tergum 1 honey yellow medially, brown laterally, terga 2 and 3 yellow medially, brown laterally, tergum 4 at base yellow medially, brown laterally and yellow apically, terga 5-7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma brown, yellow at apex and along anterior margin; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose; 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 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate and dull, lateral lobes covered with short yellow hair; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum weakly 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 margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly 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, apical width less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; tergum 4 weakly costate at base, smooth apically, remainder of terga smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Santa [;] Rosa Nat’l. Park, Bosque San [;] Emilio, trap #7 in clearing, 300m [;] II/8-III/2/1986, I Gauld; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] flavidus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The yellow color of this species is distinctive.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin flavidus meaning yellowish in reference to the body color.