Heterospilus retheospilus Marsh
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/ADEABE1A-8A80-4CA3-BB36-E9956386B566 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:act:ADEABE1A-8A80-4CA3-BB36-E9956386B566 |
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Heterospilus retheospilus Marsh |
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Heterospilus retheospilus Marsh sp. n. Figure 276
Female.
Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga somewhat lighter brown; scape yellow with weak lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs light brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove very weak and nearly absent, straight; posterior transverse groove indicated by very weak impressed line, nearly absent; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.
Holotype female.
Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, viii-ix 1989 [;] Col. Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] retheospilus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.
Paratypes.
Known only from the holotype.
Comments.
The long a narrow metasomal tergum 1 and the white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.
Etymology.
The specific name is an anagram of the generic name Heterospilus .
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