Heterospilus quickei 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 : 145-146

Heterospilus quickei Marsh sp. n. Figure 97

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits yellow, frons sometimes yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma brown, lighter brown along notauli and often on pronotum; metasomal terga dark brown, tergum 2 usually honey yellow medially, brown laterally; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.0-2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 16-19 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in rectangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron, occasionally with striae extending from sulcus to posterior margin of mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, rarely extremely short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width usually equal to length, rarely slightly less; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1-2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-10-C [;] Dates: 8. ii– 2.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] quickei [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional: Site #:BH-12-C; Dates: 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 and 14. viii– 6.ix.1986 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex, Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-11-O and blank [;] Dates: 6-27.ix.1986 and 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex, Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-4-C [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex, Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-2-O [;] Dates: 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex, Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-6-C and blank [;] Dates: 3-24.viii.1985, 14. viii– 6.xi.1986 and 24. xi– 20.xii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex, Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-&-O and blank [;] Dates: 8-24.xi.1986 and 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: BH-10-C [;] Guanacaste Province [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Pk. [;] 300m, (dry season) [;] 10-31 January 1987; second label - Bosque Humedo, mature [;] dry forest with high [;] proportion evergreen [;] species, fully shaded [;] Townes style Malaise [;] Ian Gauld, coll. (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.i.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Sun; third label - BH-9-O [;] 10-31.i.87 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 21.ii.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Sun (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Res. Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km. SW Rincon, 10m [;] ii and iv.1993, P. Hanson [;] Malaise, primary forest (ESW). 5 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 3km SW [;] Rincon [;] 10m, iii-v 1989 [;] Col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 3Km S [;] Rincón. 10m [;] III-V/1989, Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon [;] 30km N Cariari, 100m [;] Sector Cocori, Malaise [;] iii.1995, E. Rojas #4524 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 17 Oct 77, 3 Oct 77 and 13 Jun 77 [;] D.H Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The granulate mesopleuron, rugose face and absence of hind wing vein SC+R are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my colleague and friend, the British braconidologist Donald Quicke.