Heterospilus chilamatensis 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 : 217-218

Heterospilus chilamatensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 147

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical terga usually yellow; scape brown without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown with white apical annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, tarsi usually brown. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face 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 slightly greater than twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 24-26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, rarely indistinctly margined, sculpture granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinct, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with small but distinct tubercle above hind coxa at base of petiole. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M, rarely interstitial; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Chilamate, 75m [;] 25.iii.1989 [;] Hanson & Godoy; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] chilamatensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 01, #332 [;] 1,2.i.1994 [;] Project ALAS(M.01.332) (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Limon [;] 4km NE Bribri [;] 50m, IX-XI 1989 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 7 Dec., 76 [;] D. H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The presence of hind wing vein SC+R, the smooth metasomal terga 4-6 and the dark brown scape are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the locality of the holotype, Chilamate in Heredia Province.