Heterospilus smithi 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 : 410-411

Heterospilus smithi Marsh sp. n. Figure 283

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown to black; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; 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 slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present and very short or absent, areola usually margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, small smooth spot anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU slightly longer than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, median raised area usually distinctly margined by lateral grooves, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. [;] Las Alturas, 2050m [;] ix-xi.1992, Paul Hanson [;] ex. Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] smithi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, February 1996 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela [;] 5km. W San Ramon [;] 1200m, December 1996 [;] O. Castro & P. Hanson (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes (ESUW).

Comments.

The long ovipositor, smooth metasomal terga 3-7 and the hind wing vein M+CU longer than vein 1M are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my friend and long time Systematic Entomology Laboratory colleague, David R. Smith.