Heterospilus bacchus 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 : 206-208

Heterospilus bacchus Marsh sp. n. Figure 139

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 yellow medially, tergum 5 at apex and terga 6-7 entirely yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 5-7 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space slightly greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in weak small costate area, occasionally nearly absent posteriorly; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5 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 margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose with small granulate area anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinal costate-granulate laterally, granulate medially, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor equal to or shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km SW of Rincon, 10m [;] Mar-April 1992, P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] bacchus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype (some lines and/or words in different order), additional dates of July 1991, viii.1991 and iii.1993 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Braulio Carrillo N.P. [;] 250-500m IV.10.85 [;] Henri Goulet (AEIC). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Punt- [;] arenas. 7km SW Rincon [;] 31. v– 7.vi.1998. B. Brown [;] & V. Berezovskiy. Mal. [;] Trp. #3, 1° forest and #5, 2nd growth (AEIC).

Comments.

The granulate metasomal tergum 1 and the short ovipositor are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, sensual pleasure and truth.