Heterospilus jakaltek 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 : 95-96

Heterospilus jakaltek Marsh sp. n. Figure 62

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with basal flagellomere yellow; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, terga 2-7 light brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate medially, smooth near eyes; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, bulging behind eye, width slightly greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 14 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron weakly granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, 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 absent, vein M+CU shorter than 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 7-28.xii.1985 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] jakaltek [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The long ovipositor and absence of hind wing vein SC+R are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Jakaltek, an indigenous Mayan people of Guatemala.