Heterospilus poqomchi 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 : 396-398

Heterospilus poqomchi Marsh sp. n. Figure 272

Female.

Body size: 1.5 mm. Color: body entirely brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown, basal flagellomere yellow, apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 12-14 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli smooth, meeting posteriorly in weakly costate or unsculptured area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present but very short, areola distinctly margined, areolar area broadly 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, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, smooth, straight; posterior transverse groove present, smooth; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce 24km W [;] Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, xii 89-iii 1990 [;] Col. Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] poqomchi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype, additional dates of Feb. 1992, III.1993 and VIII-IX-1993 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela, ACA [;] San Carlos, R.F. Arenal [;] Sendero Pilon, 600m, Malaise [;] 14. x– 3.xii.1998, G. Carballo [;] L.N. 269100-457900 #53365 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] PiedrasBlancas, 200m [;] iIII-VI-90 Hanson (MICR).

Comments.

The small size, distinctly margined areola on the propodeum and the short tricolored flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Poqomchi’, a Mayan people of Guatemala.