Heterospilus bribri 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 : 40-42

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/909472AA-73A4-456B-899E-A1B4684ACAA1

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scientific name

Heterospilus bribri Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus bribri Marsh sp. n. Figure 21

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma brown, pronotum often light brown; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2 brown to honey yellow, terga 3-6 dark brown basally, yellow apically, tergum 7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow apex; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face smooth; 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; 26-31 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely granulate. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial or very slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum costate, apical width less than length; second tergum costate-granulate, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; third tergum entirely granulate; terga 4-7 granulate at base, smooth apically; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] Puntar. Golfo Dulce [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, vi-viii 1989 [;] Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] bribri [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas, [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 5km. [;] W. Piedras Blancas, 100m [;] xi–xii.1991, P. Hanson, [;] Malaise nr. second growth (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 19, 31 and 32 [;] 8.x.1994, 2.xi.1994 and 3.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FCK19, 31 and 32) (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] xi.1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde, 212m [;] Sec. Palo Verde, Cerro Guayacan [;] 13. ix– 13.x.1999, I. Jimenez, Malaise [;] L.N. 259350-389600 #53499 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: blank [;] Dates: 14. viii– 6.ix.1986 and 7-28.xii.1985 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: 10 [;] Dates: 26. x– 16.xi.1985 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise SE-6-C [;] Bosque San Emilio, [;] deciduous forest [;] 50yr. old, Ian Gauld [;] 5.vii.1986, full shade (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] RF Golfo Dulce, el 200m [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] P. Hanson vii and ix.1992 (TAMU). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 3km [;] SW. Rincon, 10m [;] III-VI 1990, Hanson (MICR). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] PiedrasBlancas, 200m [;] XII.89-III.90 Hanson (MICR). 1 ♀, Sirena, Osa Pen. [;] VII.77 Cos. Rica [;] D. H. Janzen (AEIC). 5 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica. 25 Jun 77, 15 Jun 77, 16 Nov. 77, 14 Nov 77 and 20 Nov 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian and Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the 3 cross carinae in the prescutellar furrow and the granulate metasomal terga.

Etymology.

Named for the Bribri, an indigenous people group of Costa Rica.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus