Heterospilus diecisiete 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 : 343-344

Heterospilus diecisiete Marsh sp. n. Figure 232

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark brown, metasoma brown; scape light brown without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs bicolored, tibiae and tarsi yellow, femora and coxae light brown, trochanters yellow. Head: eyes small; vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth, width greater than height, oral opening unusually large; temple in dorsal view broad, width greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 4 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 13 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in small triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present and long, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with apical-lateral corners pointed. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum smooth except for weak short costae at basal corners; anterior transverse groove weak but present; posterior transverse groove weak but present; third tergum smooth entirely; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about as long as entire body.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva [;] 50-150m, 10.26N, 84.01W [;] ii-iv 1993, P. Hanson [;] huertos Malaise trap [;] set by G. Wright; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] diecisiete [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

This unusual species is distinguished by the small eyes and short face, short flagellum, long precoxal sulcus, pointed apical-lateral corners of the propodeum and the unusually long ovipositor.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.