Heterospilus longinoi 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 : 250-251

Heterospilus longinoi Marsh sp. n. Figure 169

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum entirely brown; mesosoma dark brow; metasomal terga brown to dark brown, terga 6-7 yellow at apex; wing vein including stigma brown; legs yellow with apical half of hind femur, apical 1/4 of hind tibia and hind tarsus darker brown. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; 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 about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, median lobe somewhat depressed medially at junction of notauli; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, represented by a shallow round depression; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas not distinct, obscured by entire rugose propodeum, basal median carina absent, areola not indicated, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with distinct tubercle above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate-granulate, raised median area distinctly margined on each side, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely granulate except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor slightly shorter than length of metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: La Selva [;] 1.XII.1983 [;] J. Longino [;] (M/13/287); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] longinoi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The entirely rugose propodeum, deeply sculptured notauli and the granulate metasomal terga 3-6 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for its collector, J. Longino.