Heterospilus catiensis 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 : 327-328

Heterospilus catiensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 219

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head, mesosoma and metasomal tergum brown, metasomal terga 2-7 light brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical 5-7 flagellomeres white, apical one sometimes dark; wing veins light brown, stigma light brown or yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width slightly less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes very weakly granulate or smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate 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, areola distinctly margined, areolar area broadly 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, length twice 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 longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Turrialba, CATIE [;] 14-15.iii.1990 [;] 700m, J.S. Noyes; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] catiensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the costate metasomal tergum 3 and the 3 cross carinae in the prescutellar furrow.

Etymology.

Named for CATIE, the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (Tropical Agriculture Research and Higher Education Center) in Turrialba, Cartago Province.