Notiospathius ninae Marsh, 2002

Rodriguez-Jimenez, Andrea & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2016, Taxonomic synopsis of Notiospathius Matthews & Marsh, 1973 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4132 (2), pp. 151-206 : 187

Notiospathius ninae Marsh, 2002

Notiospathius ninae Marsh, 2002: 148 .

Variation with respect to holotype. Female. Body length: 6.70 mm. Color. Head mainly honey yellow-honey. Eye orbits yellow. Malar space yellow. Periocellar area honey. Annulus with 11 flagellomeres yellow apically. Flagellomeres before annuli honey to dark brown. Mesosoma mainly honey. Mesoscutal lobes honey. Venter of mesosoma honey. Pronotum honey. Propodeum honey. First tergum honey. Second tergum honey basally with remainder dark brown. Third tergum dark brown basally with remainder honey-yellow. Fourth tergum honeyyellow. Fifth tergum honey-yellow. Sixth tergum honey-yellow. Remaining terga honey-yellow except the last one, which is yellow. Fore and middle femur yellow-brown. Hind coxa honey. Hind trochantellus yellow with at apex honey. Hind femur honey, with yellow at apex and base. Hind tibia yellow basally, and the remaining honey. Hind tarsi honey. Veins mainly brown-dark brown. Tegula honey. Stigma pale yellow-yellow-dark brown.

Head. Head 0.80 x higher than wide. Face minimum width/maximum width ratio 0.83. Eye 1.29 x higher than wide. Malar space 0.39 x eye height in lateral view. Temple/eye length ratio in dorsal view 0.48. Gena-temple area smooth-weakly costate. Scape 0.69 x first flagellomere length. Flagellomeres 40.

Mesosoma. Pronotum porcate laterally and rugose ventrally. Pronotal groove laterally scrobiculate-smooth. Propleuron costate dorsally, weakly coriaceous-smooth. Mesoscutal lobes strongly rugose-weakly rugose. Mesoscutum medially costate-weakly rugose. Precoxal sulcus length 0.67 mesopleuron length. Mesopleuron porcate dorsally, porcate-rugose medially, and porcate-smooth ventrally. Venter of mesosoma smooth-weakly rugose with a few area rugose. Metapleuron rugose-areolate. Two sublateral, longitudinal and complete carinae present.

Wings: fore wing. 2RS/2M ratio 0.47. Vein (RS+M)b indistinct. Vein (RS+M)b/2RS ratio 0.06. Vein r 0.30 length of vein 3 RSa. Vein 1cu-a slightly postfurcal to vein 1M. Hind wing. Vein M+CU/1M ratio 0.39. Vein m-cu nebulous. Vein cu-a 0.09 length of 1M. Vein r-m/1M ratio 0.25.

Legs. Hind coxa dorsally costate-rugose. Ventral part of hind coxa rugose. Hind coxa 0.42–0.49 length of hind femur. Hind femur in dorsal view smooth.

Metasoma. First tergum 2.86 x longer than apical width. First tergum strongly rugose-costate. Second tergum costulate-rugulose. Third tergum finely costulate-rugulose on basal half, smooth on apical half. Suture between second and third tergum present. Suture between second and third tergum strong. Suture between second and third tergum straight. Ovipositor 8.65 mm long. Ovipositor 2.31 x length of metasoma. Ovipositor 5.58 x length of first tergum.

Distribution. Costa Rica, Colombia.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype female examined, UWIM. One female ( ICN): Colombia, Putumayo, PNN La Paya, Cabaña Viviano, 0º7'S 74º56’W, 320m, Malaise, 20–26.ix.2001, D. Campos Leg. M.2081 ICN 0 44857.