Heterospilus sanjosensis 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 : 404-406

Heterospilus sanjosensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 278

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark brown, metasomal terga light brown, tergum 1 often darker brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width slightly greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 14-15 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate and shining; notauli mostly smooth, meeting at scutellum in unsculptured area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth above precoxal sulcus, weakly granulate dorsally; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r equal to or slightly shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU equal in length to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum weakly longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum weakly costate basally, smooth apically; anterior transverse groove present, weak, straight; posterior transverse groove present, weak; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 6km. N. San Gerardo [;] 2800m, August 1992 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] sanjosensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, P. Hanson [;] ix.1995 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] 26km. N. San Isidro [;] just S. of Division [;] 2100m, viii-ix.1991 and vi-viii.1992 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise [;] secondary growth (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Alajuela [;] San Pedro de la [;] Tigra Cacao, 200m [;] I-II 1990 R. Cespedes (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela [;] 5km W San Ramon [;] 1200m, iv.1997 [;] O. Castro & P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] ix–x.1993 1600m [;] P. Hanson (TAMU). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito - Las Cruces [;] 5-VI-1988 [;] P. Hanson (TAMU). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Punt- [;] arenas, Las Alturas, [;] 1600m; 10-130. vi.1998; [;] Brown & Berezovskiy; [;] Mal. Trp. #2; for. edge (AEIC).

Comments.

The short antennae, the metasomal tergum 2 which is smooth apically and the unsculptured notauli are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for San Jose Province where most of the type series was collected.