Heterospilus holleyae 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 : 359-360

Heterospilus holleyae Marsh sp. n. Figure 243

Female.

Body size: 4.0-4.5 mm. Color: entire body dark brown or black; scape brown, flagellum entirely dark brown; legs honey yellow, hind coxa brown anteriorly; wing veins including stigma dark brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth, rarely weakly striate at antennal base; face rugose; temple in dorsal view somewhat narrow and sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space about 1/5 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 34-36 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli smooth, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae, middle carina stronger than lateral ones; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas small, smooth and not distinctly margined, basal median carina absent or very short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r less than 1/2 length of 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, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum longitudinally costate, smooth at extreme apex; terga 4 and 5 longitudinally costate, smooth at extreme apex; terga 6 and 7 smooth; ovipositor about as long as metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 8 Oct 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian; second label (red, printed) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] holleyae Marsh. Deposited in AEIC.

Paratypes.

6 ♀♀, same data as holotype except: dates of 14. Dec. 76 to6 Oct 77; Dry Hill in addition to Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The costate metasomal terga 3-5, smooth notauli and brown coxa are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for Jo-Anne Holley, wife of Alex Wild.