Heterospilus catorce 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 : 328-329

Heterospilus catorce Marsh sp. n. Figure 220

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons dark brown, face honey yellow; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1 and 2 dark brown, remainder of terga dark brown basally, dark yellow apically; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space about equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli weakly scrobiculate anteriorly, smooth posteriorly, meeting posteriorly in rectangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, smooth 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, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, narrow, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, very slightly sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, weakly granulate apically; terga 4-7 weakly granulate basally, nearly smooth apically; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise trap, Ian Gauld [;] 26. vii– 14.viii 1986; second label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Bosque San Emelio [;] 50yr. old deciduous [;] forest, [;] Full Shade; third label (white, printed) - SE-8-C [;] 26. vii– 14.viii.86; fourth label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] catorce [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The smooth mesoscutum, rectangular costate area where notauli meet, the narrow metasomal tergum 2 and the white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.