Heterospilus romani 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 : 153-154

Heterospilus romani Marsh sp. n. Figure 104

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head dark brown, scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-8 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal 1-4 dark brown, tergum 5 brown at base, yellow at apex, terga 6-7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma brown with small yellow spot at apex; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face weakly granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, 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; 27 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, 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 posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. 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, apical width less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate, about 4 times as wide as long; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum granulate with smooth apex; terga 4-7 granulate at base; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] ACO, R.F. Golfo Dulce [;] Golfito, Estacion Agujas [;] La Bonanza, 495m; second label (white, printed) - 15 Sept.-15 Oct. 1999 [;] J. Azofeifa, Malaise trap [;] L.S. 276000-526550 [;] # 53487; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] romani [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] PiedrasBlancas, 200m [;] III-VI-90 Hanson (MICR).

Comments.

The granulate metasomal terga, at least at base, and the single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for A. Roman who described numerous Neotropical braconids in the early 1900s.