Heterospilus sanvitoensis Marsh
|
publication ID |
https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002 |
|
publication LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52232D18-DD78-4A84-882C-ACA428B4A9D2 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/46CCF7A0-1DC6-4F04-9F08-89097BB64DA0 |
|
taxon LSID |
lsid:zoobank.org:act:46CCF7A0-1DC6-4F04-9F08-89097BB64DA0 |
|
treatment provided by |
|
|
scientific name |
Heterospilus sanvitoensis Marsh |
| status |
sp. n. |
Heterospilus sanvitoensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 107
Female.
Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: body entirely dark brown; scape honey yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, hind femur and tibia yellow on basal half, brown on apical half, hind tarsus brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face granulate-areolate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangle rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, rugose, basal median carina absent, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, with weak apical-lateral tubercle just above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly 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 longitudinal costate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated at least medially; third tergum smooth entirely; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.
Holotype female.
Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] sanvitoensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.
Paratypes.
1 ♀, Sirena, Osa Pen. [;] VII.77 Cos. Rica [;] D. H. Janzen (AEIC).
Comments.
The areolate-granulate face and the smooth scutellum are distinctive for this species.
Etymology.
Named for the type locality of San Vito in Puntarenas Province.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.