Heterospilus luteus 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 : 374-375

Heterospilus luteus Marsh sp. n. Figure 255

Female.

Body size: 1.5 mm. Color: body entirely yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically; wing veins including stigma light brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space slightly greater than or equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 13-15 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or equal to vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1m, rarely interstitial; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum weakly longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum weakly longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

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

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 18. i– 8.ii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10yrs old [;] [O] clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10yrs old [;] [O] clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW).

Comments.

The small and yellow body, short antennae and smooth vertex are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin luteus, meaning yellow, in reference to the entirely yellow body.