Heterospilus fonsecai 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 : 70-72

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FE53F57B-78DF-4D30-8F50-F8806105C5A2

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Heterospilus fonsecai Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus fonsecai Marsh sp. n. Figure 44

Female.

Body size: 4.0 mm. Color: head dark brown, face honey yellow; scape honey yellow, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, terga 5-7 lighter brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate or entirely smooth, at least smooth near occipital carina; frons striate; face striate; temple smooth; temple in dorsal view less than 1/2 eye width, slightly bulging; malar space about 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 26-28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting before prescutellar furrow in triangular longitudinally costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, about 1/2 length of mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, basal median areas smooth, basal median carina short but distinct, areola weakly margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas areolate-rugose with small smooth area anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r about 1/2 length of vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M by about its own length; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU slightly shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum length about equal to apical width, longitudinally costate, granulate between costae; second tergum apical width less than 3 times median length, longitudinally costate, granulate between costae; anterior and posterior transverse grooves distinct; third tergum longitudinally costate at basal half, smooth on apical half; terga 4-7 smooth except costate at extreme base; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Est. Sirena (Parte Alta) [;] Send. Rio Claro, 1-100m [;] ix-xii.1991, G. Fonseca [;] L.S. 270500-508300 [;] #7453, Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] fonsecai [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica - Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W 100m [;] Canopy fogging 32 [;] 3.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS(FVK32) (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label -COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m. 10°26'N, 81°01'W [;] Feb 1994, INBio-OET; second label - 1 Febrero 1994 [;] Bosque secundario [;] M/02/333 (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is distinct by its smooth mesoscutum and yellow stigma.

Etymology.

This species is named after the collector of the holotype, G. Fonseca.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus