Heterospilus bruesi 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 : 42-43

Heterospilus bruesi Marsh sp. n. Figure 22

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and temple yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown (broken); mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1-4 dark brown, terga 5-7 yellow; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex weakly transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face striate; temple in dorsal view broad, not sloping inward behind eye, width greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space less than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly less than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus;? flagellomeres (broken). Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas granulate, distinctly margined, basal median carina absent, areola 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 present, vein M+CU equal in length to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum costate, about 4 times as wide as long; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA - Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 12, #397 [;] 30.vi.1995 [;] Project ALAS (M.12.397); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] bruesi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The broad temple and sinuate anterior transverse groove of metasomal tergum 2 will distinguish this species.

Etymology.

Named for C. T. Brues who described many Braconidae in the early 1900s.