Heterospilus phaeocoxus 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 : 263-265

Heterospilus phaeocoxus Marsh sp. n. Figure 179

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga yellow; scape dark brown, flagellum brown with apical 9 flagellomeres white, apical flagellomere partially brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs bicolored yellow and brown, fore and mid coxae and trochanters light yellow, femora brown with yellow at extreme base, tibiae and tarsi brown, hind coxa brown, trochanters and base of femur yellow, rest of femur, tibia and tarsus brown. Head: vertex weakly granulate; frons weakly granulate; face weakly granulate-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; 27 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, propodeum with distinct tubercle just above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU equal to length of vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth except for costate posterior transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Alajuela, ACA [;] San Carlos, R.F. Arenal, 600m [;] Send. Pilon, Malaise trap [;]\ 26. x– 22.xi.1999, G. Carballo [;] L.N. 269100-457900 #54376; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] phaeocoxus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The distinctly bicolored brown and yellow legs and the single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Greek phaios, meaning brown, in reference to the brown hind coxa.