Heterospilus qanjobal 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 : 398-399

Heterospilus qanjobal Marsh sp. n. Figure 273

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head and mesosoma brown to dark brown, metasoma brown, terga 1 dark brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; legs yellow to light brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, bulging behind eye, width greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate, median lobe with longitudinal median shallow smooth groove; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus strongly scrobiculate, as long as mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU slightly shorter or equal to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum rugose, length greater than apical width, median raised area bordered by distinct margined smooth grooves; second tergum longitudinally costate medially, smooth apically and laterally; anterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, ii.1994 [;] Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] qanjobal [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype with date of III-1995 (ESUW).

Comments.

The strongly scrobiculate precoxal sulcus which is as long as the mesopleuron, the large body size and the rugose metasomal tergum 1 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Q’anjob’al, a Mayan people of Guatemala.