Heterospilus staryi 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 : 166-167

Heterospilus staryi Marsh sp. n. Figure 113

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head brown, eye orbits yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-6 flagellomeres white; mesosoma with propleuron, pronotum, mesopleuron dorsally, scutellum and propodeum dark brown, mesoscutum, mesopleuron ventrally and venter honey yellow; metasomal terga dark brown, tergum 2 with basal u-shaped yellow mark, terga 6-7 yellow; legs yellow or light brown; wing veins and stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face areolate; temple in dorsal view narrow, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 1.5-2 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 26-32 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, areas smooth anteriorly and rugose posteriorly, basal median carina present but very short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. 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, length greater than apical width; second tergum costate, width slightly more than 3 times length; anterior trans verse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Heredia [;] Puerto Viejo, 100m [;] OTS- La Selva [;] III-1991 P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] staryi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m. 10°26'N, 84°01W [;] Jun 1993 INBio-OET; second label - 2 Junio 1993 [;] Bosque secundario [;] M/16/122; third label, INBio bar code (ESUW).

Comments.

The species is distinguished by the u-shaped yellow mark at base of metasomal tergum 2.

Etymology.

Named for my colleague, Petr Stary.