Heterospilus albocoxalis 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 : 33-34

Heterospilus albocoxalis Marsh sp. n. Figure 13

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma brown, propleuron honey yellow; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2 yellow, terga 3-7 brown to dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown; coxae and trochanters white, remainder of legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face striate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 23 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate 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, apical width less than length; second tergum granulate-rugulose; anterior transverse groove weak or absent; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum granulate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Prov. Puntarenas [;] ACO, Golfito, PN Corcovado [;] Est. Agujas, Cerro Rincon, 745m [;] 17. iv– 16.v.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276900-521500 #52781; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] albocoxalis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The white coxae and trochanters are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin albus meaning white in reference to the white coxae.