Heterospilus noyesi 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 : 136-137

Heterospilus noyesi Marsh sp. n. Figure 91

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head honey yellow or light brown; scape yellow, without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown (broken); mesosoma brown, mesoscutal lobes lighter honey yellow; metasoma brown to dark brown; legs yellow, femora with brown dorsal swelling and on apical half, hind tibia brown on apical half, hind tarsus dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance nearly 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus;? flagellomeres (broken in holotype and paratype). Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes rugose, lateral lobes costate laterally; notauli scrobiculate, meeting in triangular rugose area before scutellum; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, equal to width of mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas indistinct or weakly margined, basal median areas rugose, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-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 costate-rugose, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, apical width about 3 times length; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove present but weak; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] noyesi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] 2km SW de Cerro Cacao [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1400m [;] 21-28.v.1992, Curso Biod. [;] I.N. 323300-375700 #6900 (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is distinctive by the rugose face and mesoscutum.

Etymology.

Named for John Noyes who collected the holotype specimen.