Heterospilus corrugatus 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 : 53-54

Heterospilus corrugatus Marsh sp. n. Figure 30

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex, frons and temple brown, face and eye orbits yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically; mesosoma dark brown, propleuron and lower half of mesopleuron honey yellow; metasoma brown to dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown, fore wing with light brown band from stigma to posterior edge of wing; 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 greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes strongly rugose-granulate, entirely covered with sparse short setae; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum rugose; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, nearly smooth; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate or smooth, basal median carina absent or extremely short, areola weakly margined, areolar area 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 shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate-granulate length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove weakly present; third tergum costate at base, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #:SE-7-O [;] Dates: 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] corrugatus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 14 Sep 77, 16 Oct 77 and 19 Oct 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The strongly rugose and granulate mesoscutum, the entirely hairy mesoscutal lobes and the granulate metasomal terga 3 and 4 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The species name is from the Latin corrugatus meaning wrinkled or ridged in reference to the rugose mesoscutum.