Heterospilus fournieri 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 : 72-73

Heterospilus fournieri Marsh sp. n. Figure 45

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: body entirely honey yellow or yellow, propodeum sometimes slightly darker; scape yellow; flagellum yellow basally to brown apically; legs yellow; wing veins brown, stigma yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate; frons 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 greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 11-17 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with one distinct median cross carina, rarely with weak carinae laterally; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not 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 nearly as long as vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width about equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak, straight; posterior transverse groove weak; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] xii 1989 - i 1990 [;] Luis Fournier; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] fournieri [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 21.ii.1987; second label, Open regenerating [;] woodland less than [;] 10 yrs. old, sun; third label, H-1-O [;] 31. i– 21.ii.87 (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark,Guan, Guan. [;] C. Rica 8 Mar. 77 [;] D. H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The yellow or honey yellow body, smooth mesopleuron and hind wing vein SC+R being present are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the collector of the holotype, Luis Fournier.