Heterospilus wahli 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 : 425-426

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5CB44550-FC2A-4351-8C93-BC41662B0C93

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Heterospilus wahli Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus wahli Marsh sp. n. Figure 295

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: head with vertex brown, face honey yellow, mesosoma and metasoma brown to dark brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-7 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 14-16 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, small granulate area anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU equal in length to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

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 [;] wahli [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R. F. Golfo Dulce, 24km. [;] W. Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] I.1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] RF Golfo Dulce el 200m [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] P. Hanson ix.1992 and vi.1993 (TAMU).

Comments.

The flagellum with an apical white annulus, the smooth metasomal tergum 3 and hind wing vein M+CU being equal in length to vein 1M are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my friend and colleague, David Wahl.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus