Heterospilus whitfieldi 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 : 182-184

Heterospilus whitfieldi Marsh sp. n. Figure 125

Female.

Body size: 2.0-3.0 mm. Color: body usually brown to dark brown, vertex sometimes darker than face, apical metasomal terga often lighter than basal terga; scape and flagellum brown; legs yellow, hind coxa and femur brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate, often striae present only behind ocelli; frons usually smooth, sometimes weakly striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, not sloping behind eye, width about equal to with of eye; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, long yellow hair along notauli; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth, often hairy; prescutellar furrow with one cross carina; mesopleuron smooth, densely hair at subalar area and along posterior edge; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, smooth, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area weakly rugose or often unsculptured and smooth, lateral areas rugose, densely hairy. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or equal in length to vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU as long as vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum rugose or rugose-costate, apical width slightly greater than length, median raised area distinctly margined on each side; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of terga 1+2.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 12. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] whitfieldi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

4 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional sites of SE-5-O and SE-7-O, and dates of 28.xii.85-18.i.1986, 6-29.ix.1986 and 7-28.xii.1985 (ESUW). 14 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-6-C and SE-8-C [;] Dates: 5-26.x.1985, 7-28.xii.1985, 2-23.iii.1986, 31. i– 21.ii.1987, 23. iii– 13.iv.1986, 26. x– 16.xi.1985, 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 and 18. x– 8.xi.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). 13 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O, H-3-O, H-2-O and blank [;] Dates: 23. iii– 13.iv.1986, 21. ii– 14.iii.1987, 14. viii– 6.ix.1986, 14. vi– 5.vii.1986, 26. x– 16.xi.1985, 20.xii.86-10.i.1987, 2 –23.iii.19864–24.v.198618.x– 8.xi.1986 and 13. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 13 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-4-C, H-2-C and blank [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986, 2-23.iii.1986, 18. x– 8.xi.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 5026.vii.1986, 14. viii– 6.ix.1986, 23. iii– 13.iv.1986 and 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 23 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-4-O, BH-9-O, BH-11-O and blank [;] Dates: 8. ii– 2.iii.1986, 2-23.iii.1986, 4-24.v.1986, 18. i– 8.ii.1986, 14. vi– 5.vii.1986, 2-23.iii.1986, 18. i– 8.11.1986, 24. v– 14.vi.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 and 20.xi.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 30 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-10-C, BH-12-C and blank [;] Dates: 24. v– 14.vi.1986, 8. ii– 2.iii.1986, 23. ii– 13.iv.1986, 29. xi– 20.xii.1986, 18. i– 8.ii.1986, 18. x– 8.xi.1986, 5-26.vii.1986, 14. vi– 5.vii.1986, 2-23.iii.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 16.xi-t.xii.1985, 6-27.ix.1986, 7-28.xii.1985 and 4-24.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 18. x– 8.xi.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr Old deciduous [;] Forest [;] Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 18. x– 8.xi.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 6-27.ix.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr Old deciduous [;] Forest [;] Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 6-27.ix.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 21.ii.1987; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr Old deciduous [;] Forest [;] Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 31. i– 21.ii.87 (ESUW). 13 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 21.ii.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Full Shade; third label - BH-10-C [;] 31. i– 21.ii.87 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.I.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Sun; third label - BH-11-O [;] 10-31.i.87 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: BH-10-C [;] Guanacaste Province [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Pk. [;] 300m, (dry season) [;] 10-31 January 1987; second label - Bosque Humedo, mature [;] dry forest with high [;] proportion evergreen [;] species, fully shaded [;] Townes style Malaise [;] Ian Gauld coll. (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: 9 and SE-8-C [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica, Guanacaste Pr. [;] Guan, Conservation Area [;] Santa Rosa Hdq., 200m [;] Malaise trap 22-26 VII 1997 and 3-8 VII 1987 [;] 3x night L.J. van der Ent (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sec. P. Verde, 0-50m [;] Extremo E. Campo Aterrizaje [;] Malaise trap #53259 [;] 16. vii– 17.viii.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 260952-385020 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sector Palo Verde [;] 500 NW de la Est, 40m [;] 4. vi– 6.vii.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 260952-385020 #52849 [;] Malaise trap (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] xii 1989-i.1990 [;] Luis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 19km s 3 W Empalme [;] 2600m, November 1992 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] 2km. W. Empalme [;] 2300m, July 1995 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon [;] 800m, iii-iv 1990 [;] Col. Luis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀. Costa Rica: San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, xii.1998 [;] W. Eberhard (ESUW). 7 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica, various dates from May 1977 to May 1978 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill and Riparian (AEIC). 1 ♀, C. Rica: Escazú [;] May 21, 1987 [;] H. & M. Townes (AEIC).

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the long dense hair along the notauli, subalar area of the mesopleuron and laterally on the propodeum.

Etymology.

Named for my colleague and friend, Jim Whitfield, in recognition of his interest and help in this project.