Paraheterospilus wilbotgardus 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 : 18

Paraheterospilus wilbotgardus Marsh sp. n.

Female.

Body size: 1.5-2.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga often lighter; scape and pedicel yellow, flagellum brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma light yellow. Head: vertex weakly granulate, dorsal-lateral corners sharply angled; frons weakly granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view somewhat broad and not sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space about 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 4 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in large triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum nearly horizontal, only gradually sloping posteriorly, basal median areas distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina present, short, areola distinct, areolar area broadly areolate-rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, width of stigma slightly greater than length of vein r, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first metasomal tergum longitudinally costate-granulate, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinal costate, width about 3 times median length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Male.

Unknown.

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, printed) - HOLOTYPE [;] Paraheterospilus [;] wilbotgardus Marsh. Deposited in (ESUW).

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is distinguished from the others in the genus by the more coarsely granulate head and mesosoma and the more horizontal propodeum.

Etymology.

The specific name is in reference to the type locality of the Wilson Botanical Gardens in Puntarenas Province.