Heterospilus turrialbaensis 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 : 174-175

Heterospilus turrialbaensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 119

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: head brown to dark brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically, apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma brown to dark brown; metasoma brown to dark brown; 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 greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times or greater than diameter of lateral ocellus; 20-23 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 scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent or rarely very short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. 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, apical width at most equal to 1/2 length, usually less; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to 1/2 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Turrialba, CATIE [;] 14-15 March 1990 [;] 700m, J.S. Noyes; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] turrialbaensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Braulio Carillo N.P. [;] 600m, 25.iii.1990 [;] J. S. Noyes, coll. (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela [;] Res. Biol. San Ramon [;] 800m, iv–v.1999 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] 11mi. from Turrialba [;] "Los Esperales", C.A.T.I.E. [;] 5-II-1985 [;] P. Stansly (TAMU). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Braulio Carillo N. P. [;] 8.2km E tunnel [;] 15-V-1988 P. Hanson (TAMU).

Comments.

The narrow metasomal tergum 1 is distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is in reference to the collection locality of Turrialba for the holotype.