Heterospilus arawak 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 : 201-202

Heterospilus arawak Marsh sp. n. Figure 136

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, head with eye orbits often lighter brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow at base; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate-striate; face granulate-striate; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.0-2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 25-28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, shining; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate, shining; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or smooth; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, propodeum with small but distinct tubercle above hind coxa. 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; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor 1/2-3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo, [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] xii.1992, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] arawak [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Biol. Maritza, 600m [;] i.1997, C. Zuniga, Malaise [;] L.N. 326900-373000 #47557 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sect. Catalina, 0-50m, de Luz [;] 8-12.xi.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 260952-385020 #53252 (ESUW).

Comments.

The dark brown body, granulate but shining mesoscutum and white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Arawak, an indigenous people of Surinam.