Heterospilus janzeni 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 : 96-97

Heterospilus janzeni Marsh sp. n. Figure 63

Female.

Body size: 3.0-3.5 mm. Color: head dark brown; scape brown without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, apical terga sometimes slightly lighter; legs yellow, apical 3/4 of femora light brown; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons weakly costate, often smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 22-30 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth, rarely weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, weakly rugose, basal median carina absent, rarely very short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r about equal to length of 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-rugose, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-12-C [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] janzeni [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-O-5 [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: 6 [;] Dates: 6-26.x.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste ACT [;] Bagaces, PN Palo Verde [;] Sec. Palo Verde, Cero [;] Guaycán, 212m, Malaise [;] 18. viii– 14.ix.1999 and 13. ix– 13.x.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 259350-389600 #53254 and 53499 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 27. ix– 18.x.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr. old deciduous [;] forest, fully shade; third label, SE-8-C [;] 27. ix– 18.x.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, Puerto [;] Jimenez, 10m, December [;] 1990, P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark,Guan, Guan. [;] C. Rica 15 May, 76 [;] D. H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the brown stigma and flagellum and the entirely rugose sides of the propodeum.

Etymology.

Named for Dan Janzen in recognition of his biodiversity studies in Costa Rica.