Heterospilus rugosus 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 : 154-156

Heterospilus rugosus Marsh sp. n. Figure 105

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga dark brown, apical terga somewhat lighter; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, rugose along notauli, lobes covered nearly entirely with sparse short yellow hair; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum rugose; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas not distinctly margined, rugose or areolate-rugose, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r about equal in length to vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU about equal to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, median raised area prominent, apical width slightly greater than length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to combined lengths of metasomal terga 1-2.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 21 [;] 10.x.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FOT21); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] rugosus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The strongly rugose scutellum, mesoscutum and propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin rugosus meaning wrinkled in reference to the rugose mesosoma.