Heterospilus achi 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 : 194-195

Heterospilus achi Marsh sp. n. Figure 131

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head dark brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white band, apical most 3-5 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, metasomal terga 5-7 yellow or light brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width slightly less than 1/2 eye width; malar space about 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, median lobe with median longitudinal groove posteriorly; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-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, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor equal in length to metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.i.1987; second label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Bosque San Emilio [;] 59 yr old deciduous [;] forest [;] Full Shade; third label (white, printed) - SE-6-C [;] 10-31.i.87; fourth label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] achi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, 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 [;] Sun; third label - BH-9-O [;] 31. i– 21.ii.87 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-12-C and blank [;] Dates: 8. ii– 2.iii.1986, 8-29.xi.1986 and 16. xi– 2.xii.1985 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible and [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 15 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica, dates 5 Dec 76 to 4 Nov 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The yellow stigma and the brown lateral stripe on the scape are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Achi, a Mayan people of Guatemala.