Heterospilus cameroni 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 : 47-49

Heterospilus cameroni Marsh sp. n. Figure 26

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits light brown; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagel lum brown, basal 1-3 flagellomeres lighter; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, apical terga 4-7 light brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space short, equal to or less than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth or weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granular, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or equal to length of vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU equal to length of 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, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to 1/2 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W. 100m [;] Canopy fogging 34 [;] 10.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FVK34); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] cameroni [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Biol. Maritza, 600m [;] i.1997, C. Zuniga, Malaise [;] L.N. 326900-373000 #47557 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 26. vii– 14.viii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon, ACLAC [;] Central, R.B. Hitoy Cerere [;] Est. Hitoy Cerere, Send. [;] Catarata, 90m, Red de Golpe [;] 10.vii.1999, F. Umada [;] L.N. 184600-643400 #53857 (ESUW).

Comments.

The short malar space is distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for P. Cameron who described many tropical Braconidae in the late 1880s and early 1900s.