Heterospilus veintitres 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 : 423

Heterospilus veintitres Marsh sp. n. Figure 293

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: body dark brown; scape and flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli weakly scrobiculate anteriorly, smooth posteriorly, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area except for 2 converging carinae; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, short, areola 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 longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 weakly granulate; ovipositor equal to half length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Guanac. [;] Estac. Mengo, S.W. [;] Volcan Cacao, 1100m [;] IX-X 1989; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] veintitres [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Braulio Carrillo N.P. [;] 250-500m IV.10.85 [;] Henri Goulet (AEIC).

Comments.

The granulate metasomal terga 4-6, the two carinae where notauli meet and the single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.