Heterospilus chorti 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 : 331-332

Heterospilus chorti Marsh sp. n. Figure 222

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown, mesoscutum light brown; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2 yellow, terga 3-6 light brown; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow apex; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 17 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 distinct cross carina and rarely 2 very weak carinae laterally; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate or smooth, basal median carina present, long, areola distinctly margined, areolar area weakly rugose, lateral areas weakly rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum weakly costate at base or entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 31 [;] 2.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FPM31); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] chorti [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The distinctly margined areola on the propodeum, the sinuate anterior transverse groove on metasomal tergum 2 and the bicolored body are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Ch’orti’, a Mayan people of El Salvador.