Heterospilus reinhardi 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 : 148-149

Heterospilus reinhardi Marsh sp. n. Figure 100

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.5 mm. Color: entire body brown, apical metasomal terga sometimes lighter; scape brown, without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum entirely brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex weakly transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face striate; 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 about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose-costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, weakly granulate, basal median carina distinct, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, smooth or 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 nearly as long as vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, width less than 3 times length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove weak, often nearly absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo, [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] Oct. 1992 P. Hanson, [;] Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] reinhardi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica, Alajuela [;] Estac. Biol. San Ramon [;] 900m, X-XII-1995 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] RF Golfo Dulce el. 200m [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] P. Hanson vii.1992 (TAMU).

Comments.

This species is distinguished from Heterospilus nixoni by its striate face.

Etymology.

Name for the German entomologist H. Reinhard who described many braconids in the middle to late 1800s.