Heterospilus quitirrisi 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 : 270-272

Heterospilus quitirrisi Marsh sp. n. Figure 184

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head brown, face usually and frons sometimes honey yellow; scape yellow with weak lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically, with white annulus near tip, apical most 1-2 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma brown, mesoscutum usually lighter brown; metasomal terga brown, tergum 2 yellow medially, terga 5-7 yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width about equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in small rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron but often with carinae extending to posterior edge of mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinct but not always distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose-areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter than vein 3RSa and nearly on same plane as vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor slightly shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Rd. to Rincon, 10km W. [;] of Pan-Amer. Hwy. 100m [;] III-V 1989, Hanson & Gauld; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] quitirrisi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 3km SW. Rincon, 10m, [;] vi.1991, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 3km [;] SW Rincon, 10m, [;] VI-VII 1989, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 24km W. Piedras Blancas, [;] 200m [;] Feb. 1992, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 12, #390 [;] 4.iv.1994 [;] Project ALAS (M.12.390) (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] PiedrasBlancas, 200m [;] III-VI-90 (MICR).

Comments.

The bicolored body and the flagellum with a white annulus at the tip are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Quitirrisi, an indigenous people of Costa Rica.