Heterospilus monteverde 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 : 121-122

publication ID

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

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/84BA2890-9AB1-4FAC-B6DB-B7595BFEC808

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Heterospilus monteverde Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus monteverde Marsh sp. n. Figure 81

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head brown; scape honey yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-8 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown, mesoscutal lobes honey yellow anteriorly, propleuron and venter honey yellow; metasomal terga 1-4 dark brown, tergum slightly lighter, tergum 5 brown basally, yellow apically, terga 6-7 yellow basally, light brown apically; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, hind femur yellow on basal 1/4, brown on apical 3/4. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24-26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 median distinct cross carina plus 2 weaker carinae on each side; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. 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-granulate; second tergum costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] Puntarenas [;] Monteverde, [;] 1400m, [;] 26-28.iii.1991, yellow [;] pan, Col. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] monteverde [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The granulate mesopleuron, slightly sinuate anterior transverse groove on metasomal tergum 2 and the weak or absent posterior transverse groove of metasomal tergum 3.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the type locality, Monteverde in Puntarenas Province.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus