Heterospilus magnus 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 : 111-112

Heterospilus magnus Marsh sp. n. Figure 73

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head with vertex usually light brown, face yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellomeres brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1-4 dark brown to brown, terga 5-7 yellow, tergum 7 brown at apex; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate or occasionally smooth; frons weakly striate; face striate-granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space 1/6-1/7 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about equal to diameter of lateral ocellus; 22-26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow usually with 1 distinct cross carina, sometimes with weak carinae on each side of median carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. 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 vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate, narrow with apical width about 4 times median length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; poste rior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 31 [;] 2.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FPM31); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] magnus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype with dates of 3.xi.1994, 2.xi.1994 and 24.x.1994 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] iv.1993, Paul Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The large eyes and small malar space are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin magnus, meaning large, in reference to the large eyes.