Heterospilus agujas 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 : 31-32

Heterospilus agujas Marsh sp. n. Figure 11

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: entire body dark brown, metasomal terga 4-7 lighter brown; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-8 flagellomeres white; legs with coxae and trochanters yellow, femora, tibiae and tarsi light brown to brown; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face smooth medially, striate below antennae and on malar space; 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 twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, extending to posterior margin of mesopleuron by carinate groove; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined and granulate, basal median carina present, short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, smooth anteriorly. 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, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, width about 3 times length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum granulate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas, ACO [;] Golfito, P.N. Corcovado [sic], 745m [;] Est. Agujas, Cerro Rincon [;] 15. v– 15.vi.1999. J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276900-521500 #52744 [;] Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] agujas [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the precoxal sulcus being as long as the mesopleuron, extending to the posterior margin of the mesopleuron by distinct carinate groove, by the ovipositor as long as the metasoma and by the length of the first metasomal tergum nearly twice the apical width.

Etymology.

Named for the collecting locality of Estacion Agujas.