Heterospilus brethesi 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 : 39-40

Heterospilus brethesi Marsh sp. n. Figure 20

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head brown to light brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, apical terga slightly lighter brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view somewhat broad, width about 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-23 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent or, if present, very short, 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 present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Limon [;] 30km N Cariari, 100m [;] Sector Cocori, Malaise [;] iii.1995, E. Rojas #4524 [;] L.N. 286000-567500; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] brethesi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratype.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes (ESUW).

Comments.

The dark brown body and the white apical flagellomeres are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Argentinean hymenopterist, J. Brèthes.