Heterospilus sharkeyi 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 : 282-284

Heterospilus sharkeyi Marsh sp. n. Figure 192

Female.

Body size: 3.0-3.5 mm. Color: head dark brown; scape dark brown, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 5-7 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma dark brown, propodeum, mesopleuron and venter often lighter brown; metasomal terga dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate, usually with distinct transverse rugae behind antennae; frons granulate; face granulate-rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 25-29 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum often with small tubercle above hind coxa near base of petiole. 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, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, with distinct raised semi-circular smooth area medially at base; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely smooth except for costate posterior transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] sharkeyi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional dates of 26. x– 16.xi.1985 and 6-27.x.1986 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Santa [;] Rosa Nat’l Park, Bosque San [;] Emilio, trap #5 in clearing, 300m. [;] XI/8-29/1986, I. Gauld; second label - [SE] Bosque Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-2-C [;] Dates: 5-26.vii.1986 and 6-27.ix.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: blank [;] Dates: 27. ix– 18.x.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated pert of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1150m [;] viii.1996, M. Pereira [;] L.N. 323150-375500 347561 [;] Malaise trap (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.i.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Sun; third label - BH-11-O [;] 10-31.i.87 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Bagaces [;] Pque. Ntl. Palo verde, Sct. P. Verde [;] Cerro, Guayacan, 212m, Malaise [;] 13. x– 11.xi.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 259350-389600 #54006 (ESUW). 6 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo, [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] xi.1992 and xii.1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Puerto Viejo, [;] OTS. La Selva, 100m [;] iv.1991, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Heredia [;] 3km. S. Pto. Viejo [;] OTS-LaSelva, 100m [;] X-1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Heredia Prov. [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] 1993 II-III, P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 01, #320 [;] 15.i.1994 and 1.xi.1993 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Rd. to Rincon, 10km W. [;] of Pan-Amer. Hwy, 100m [;] III-V 1989, Hanson & Gauld (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] iv.1993, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 10km W [;] Piedras Blancas, 100m [;] VI-VIII 1989, Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Alajuela [;] Inst. Tec. SantaClara [;] 150m, 24/III/1989 [;] col. Hanson & Godoy (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon [;] Sector Cocori, 100m [;] 30km N Cariari, i.1995 [;] E. Rojas, Malaise #4526 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW).

Comments.

The distinctly granulate head, white annulus on the flagellum, bicolored mesosoma and the smooth raised area medially at the base of metasomal tergum 2 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my long time friend, colleague and fellow braconidologist, Michael Sharkey.