Heterospilus borucas 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 : 320-321

Heterospilus borucas Marsh sp. n. Figure 214

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; mesosoma brown; metasomal terga 1-3 brown, terga 4-7 yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, apical half of hind femur, tibia and tarsus light brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth or very weakly striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in tri angular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present but short, about as long as prescutellar cross carinae, areola weakly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly 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, rugose medially at base, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove weakly impressed or absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-12-C [;] Dates: 8. ii– 2.iii 1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] borucas [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] xii 1989 - i 1990 [;] Luis Fournier (ESUW).

Comments.

The smooth mesoscutum, long ovipositor, brown flagellum and bicolored hind leg are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Borucas, an indigenous people of Costa Rica.