Heterospilus hedqvisti 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 : 90-91

Heterospilus hedqvisti Marsh sp. n. Figure 58

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: head yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown, venter slightly lighter; metasoma dark brown; wing vein brown to light brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face striate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-23 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally; mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in wide rectangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; 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 slightly shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU as long as 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 as long as metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1400m [;] 2km SW de Cerro Cacao [;] 1-9.iii.1996, A. Masis [;] L.N. 323100-375800 #7477 [;] Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] hedqvisti [;] 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).

Comments.

The yellow stigma and the short ovipositor are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Swedish braconidologist, Karl-Johan Hedqvist.