Heterospilus laselvus 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 : 103-105

Heterospilus laselvus Marsh sp. n. Figure 68

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head dark brown, malar space, lower face and eye orbits usually yellow, face occasionally yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum entirely brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1-2 dark brown, terga 3-6 brown at base, yellow at apex, tergum 7 brown; fore and middle legs yellow, hind coxa and trochanters yellow, hind femur yellow with middle half brown, hind tibia yellow with brown at base and on apical half, hind tarsus brown; wing veins brown, stigma entirely brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face striate; temple narrow, not bulging behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 30-40 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at prescutellar furrow in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with one cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than length of mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, basal median areas weakly granulate, basal median carina distinct, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, smooth or weakly 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 1M. Metasoma: first tergum rugose-costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, apical width less than 3 times length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove weak or nearly absent; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 granulate at base, smooth at apex; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS-LaSelva. 100m [;] IV-V-1993. P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] laselvus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype except date of I-II-1993 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01W [;] Mar 1993, INBio-OET; second label - 02 Marzo 1993 [;] M/03/018 [;] Bosque Primario (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA: Heredia [;] Pr: La Selva Biol. Sta. [;] 3km S. Pto. Viejo [;] 10°26'N, 84°01W; second label - 23-26.V.1988 B.V. Broen [;] Malaise trap - SAT 100 [;] Secondary Forest (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Heredia, Chilamate [;] 75m, xii 89-iii 1990 [;] Hanson & Godoy (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon, ACLAC [;] Central, R.B. Hitoy Cerere, [;] Est. Hitoy Cerere, Send. Toma [;] de Agua, 100m, 17. iv– 8.v.1999 [;] F. Umana, Malaise trap [;] L.N. 184600-643400 #52757 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Limon, ACLAC [;] Central, R.B. Hitoy Cerere, [;] Send. Espavel, 560m [;] 19. v– 16.vi.1998, E. Rojas [;] L.S. 400702-570120 #52200 [;] Malaise Trap (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA, Limón [;] 4km NE Bribri [;] 50m, IX-XI 1989 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Carthago Pr. [;] Dulce Nombre, Vivero [;] Linda Vista, 1300m [;] 1993:viii-x, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 24km. W [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] III.1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-9-O [;] Dates: 26. vii– 14.viii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Guanac. [;] Estac.Pitilla,9Km S [;] Santa Cecilia, 700m [;] VI/1989, I. Gauld (MICR). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Limón [;] 4km NE Bribri [;] 50m, VII-IX-1990 [;] col. Paul Hanson (MICR).

Comments.

This species is similar to Heterospilus ashmeadi but is distinguished by the rugose area where the notauli meet and the dark brown flagellum.

Etymology.

Named after the biological station La Selva where several of the type series were collected.