Heterospilus pech 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 : 262-263

Heterospilus pech Marsh sp. n. Figure 178

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown on basal half, yellow on apical half, tergum 2 yellow medially, dark brown laterally, tergum 3 yellow basally, dark brown laterally and light brown apically, terga 4-7 light brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view broad but not sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas not distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinct, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with weak but distinct tubercle above hind coxa at base of petiole. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, very weakly granulate or appearing smooth apically; terga 4-7 very weakly granulate or appearing smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 14. viii– 6.ix.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland 10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] pech [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The yellow stigma, yellow basal metasomal terga and rugose face are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Pech, an indigenous people of Honduras.