Heterospilus aphrodite 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 : 314-315

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52232D18-DD78-4A84-882C-ACA428B4A9D2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4054EC85-837C-41D7-88F3-5BC892A1145E

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:4054EC85-837C-41D7-88F3-5BC892A1145E

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scientific name

Heterospilus aphrodite Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus aphrodite Marsh sp. n. Figure 209

Female.

Body size: 3.0-3.5 mm. Color: head yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown with basal flagellomeres lighter; mesosoma bicolored, mesoscutum, scutellum and mesopleuron dark brown, propleuron, pronotum, propodeum and venter honey yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow; metasomal terga light brown, tergum 3 darker apically. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face weakly rugose and partially smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow but slightly bulging behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or smooth; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate or partially smooth, basal median carina present but short, areola not completely 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 present, vein M+CU about as long as vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate-granulate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 10-31.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] isolated as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] aphrodite [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] PN Guanacaste, 7km E HQ [;] near "small house" [;] 9.iii.1990, J. S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 4 Jan 78 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The bicolored body, the brown flagellum, large ocelli and short ovipositor are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus