Aulacidae of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America (Hymenoptera) Smith, David R. Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 2008 2008-11-15 58 2 267 355 SMITH Smith 2008 [181,434,906,930] Insecta Curculionidae Aulacus Animalia Coleoptera 17 284 Arthropoda species heredia sp. nov.  ( Figs 22-25)   Diagnosis: Head and mesosoma orange, propleuron black; head shining without sculpture; tarsi white.  Female:Unknown.  Male: Length, 6.0 mm; forewing length 5.0 mm. Color: Head and mesosoma orange with blackish spot behind ocelli; propleuron, coxae, hind legs except white hind tarsus; and metasomal tergites blackish. Forewing hyaline with apical margin black; stigma and veins dark orange to brown. Head: Antennal length 3.3X head width. Lower interocular distance subequal to eye height; malar space about 0.3X eye height ( Fig. 22). From above head long and gradually narrowing behind eyes, head behind eyes subequal to eye length ( Fig. 23). Vertex and frons shining, without sculpture ( Figs 22, 23).  Mesosoma: Propleuronsmooth, shining. Mesoscutum reticulate with wavy transversely directed sculpture; notauli meeting separately on transscutal articulation ( Fig. 25); axilla and mesoscutellum reticulate. Pronotum smooth shining except several arced carinae at center; mesopleuron with mesepisternum smooth and shining above, very coarse reticulations at center, mesosternum finely reticulate, mesepimeron with widely spaced cross carinae; metapleuron smooth and shining above, below with large, coarse reticulations; propodeum coarsely reticulate ( Figs 24, 25). Hind coxa smooth and shining, 2.1X longer than broad. Hind basitarsus 1.1X length of remaining tarsal segments combined. Metasoma: Smooth, shining, without pubescence.     Holotype: Male, “ Costa Rica, Prov. Heredia,  11 kmESE La Lirgen, 10 21'N, 84 03'W,  250-350 m, 3/M/16/096,  18.iv.2004, INBio-OET-transect” ( USNM).   Etymology:Named for Heredia, the province in Costa Ricawhere this species was collected; a noun in apposition.   Remarks: This is a small, orange, smooth and shining species and is therefore not likely to be the male of one of the described females in this family. 2004-04-18 USNM Costa Rica 300 10.35 Male 1298 -84.05 18 285 1 Heredia holotype