Heterospilus poqomam 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 : 268-269

Heterospilus poqomam Marsh sp. n. Figure 182

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white, apical most flagellomere sometimes brown, basal 3-4 flagellomeres honey yellow; mesosoma and metasoma dark brown, apical terga lighter brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less 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; 18-20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular 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 margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly 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 absent, vein M+CU shorter than 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 before trans verse groove, granulate beyond transverse groove, smooth apically; terga 4-7 weakly smooth apically, weakly granulate basally; ovipositor shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

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 [;] poqomam [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Rd. to Rincon, 24km W. [;] Pan-Amer. Hwy, 200m [;] III-V 1989, Hanson & Gauld (ESUW).

Comments.

The lighter colored head, smooth metasomal terga 4-7 and white annulus at apex of flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Poqomam, a Mayan people of Guatemala.