Heterospilus uno 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 : 419-420

Heterospilus uno Marsh sp. n. Figure 290

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2 yellow, dark brown medially and laterally, tergum 3 dark brown, yellow medially at base, tergum 4 brown, terga 5-7 honey yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face weakly granulate or partially smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 22-24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose or rugose-costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus 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 apically, smooth or granulate basally. 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-granulate, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent or weakly present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. [;] Las Alturas, 1500m [;] iii.1992, Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] uno [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ESUW).

Comments.

The long ovipositor, longer than the metasoma, the single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow and the honey yellow head are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.