Heterospilus zurquiensis 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 : 435-436

Heterospilus zurquiensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 302

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: head dark brown; scape yellow with weak, lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 4-6 flagellomeres white, apical one often dark; mesosoma dark brown, propodeum somewhat lighter; metasomal terga brown, tergum 1 usually and tergum often yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 16-17 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate or smooth, at least partially; notauli smooth, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not margined, areolar area broadly rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 1M, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, I-II 1989 [;] P. Hanson & I. Gauld; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] zurquiensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] 9km S. Santa Cecilia [;] Estacion Pitilia, 700m [;] vi.1996, Malaise trap; second label - C. Moraga & P. Rios [;] L.N. 330200-380200 [;] #47562 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, vi.1992 and III-1996, col. P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] P.N. Braulio Carillo [;] 9.5km E tunnel, 1000m [;] iii-iv 1990 P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Guanacaste [;] Estac. Mengo [;] SW Volcan Cacao [;] 1100m, 1988-1989 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] xii 1989-i 1990 [;] Louis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1150m [;] viii.1996, M. Pereira [;] L.N. 323150-375500 #47561 [;] Malaise trap (ESUW).

Comments.

The white annulus on the flagellum, the longer and narrow metasomal tergum 1 and the nearly smooth mesoscutal lobes are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the locality where part of the type series was collected, Zurqui de Moravia in San Jose Province.