Heterospilus phaeoskelus 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 : 394-395

Heterospilus phaeoskelus Marsh sp. n. Figure 270

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga lighter brown; scape light brown without lateral brown stripe; wing veins including stigma brown; legs light brown or honey yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 23-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in rectangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth at least above precoxal sulcus, often granulate or costate dorsally; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, extending to posterior margin of mesopleuron by distinct carinae; venter granu late; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not 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 absent, vein M+CU longer than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, weak, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Carthago Pr. [;] La Cangreja, 1960m [;] 1991: x, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] phaeoskelus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional date of vi-vii.1992 (ESUW).

Comments.

The brown legs, smooth mesopleuron and granulate mesoscutum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Greek phaios, meaning brown, and the Greek skelos, meaning leg, in reference to the brown legs of this species.