Heterospilus halidayi 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 : 86

Heterospilus halidayi Marsh sp. n. Figure 55

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head light honey yellow, vertex light brown behind ocelli; scape honey yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown except mesoscutum honey yellow; metasomal terga 1 dark brown, tergum dark brown or yellow medially and dark brown laterally, tergum 3 dark brown basally, honey yellow apically, terga 4-7 honey yellow; wing veins brown, stigma brown with yellow apex; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 23-27 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth or weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae, median one often more distinct; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r less than 1/2 length 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 1/2 length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth, terga 4-5 with basal transverse scrobiculate groove; ovipositor as long as or longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 6km. N. San Gerardo [;] 2800m, IV.1992 [;] P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] halidayi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo, [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] xii.1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, P. Hanson [;] ix.1995 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Cartago Pr. [;] Dulce Nombre, Vivero [;] Linda Vista, 1300m [;] 1993: viii-x, P. Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The narrow metasomal tergum 1, the short fore wing vein r and the yellow mesoscutum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for Irish entomologist A. H. Haliday in recognition of his pioneering work on the classification of parasitic Hymenoptera .