Heterospilus nemestrinus 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 : 258

Heterospilus nemestrinus Marsh sp. n. Figure 175

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex dark brown, face and eye orbits yellow; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, tergum 7 yellow; scape yellow with weak lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate with transverse rugae behind ocelli; frons granulate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, 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; 20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, somewhat rugose along notauli; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in broad rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas not distinct, rugose, basal median carina absent, areola not distinct, 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 present, vein M+CU as long as vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 19 [;] 8.x.1994 [;] Project ALAS(FVK19); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] nemestrinus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The rugose propodeum and mesoscutum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for Nemestrinus, the Roman god of forests, woods and groves.