Heterospilus achterbergi 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 : 195-197

Heterospilus achterbergi Marsh sp. n. Figure 132

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body entirely light brown to brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow at base to brown at apex; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate, often with weak transverse rugae behind ocelli; frons granulate; face granulate-rugose; temple in dorsal view broad, slightly bulging behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth or weakly granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinct but not distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or nearly equal to 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-rugose, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate anteriorly, smooth posteriorly; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as 1/2 metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] 2km. W. Empalme [;] 2300m, July 1995 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] achterbergi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

27 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 39 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-9-O, BH-11-O and blank [;] Dates: 2-23.iii.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 23. iii– 13.iv.1986, 8. ii– 2.iii.1986 and 18. i– 8.ii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 66 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-10-C, BH-12-C and blank [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 8. ii– 2.iii.1986, 26. vii– 14.viii.1986, 23. iii– 13.iv.1986, 8. i– 2.ii.1986, 6-27.ix.1986 and 2-23.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 15 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-4-C [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986 and 2-23.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 13. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-6-C [;] Dates: 2-23.iii.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986 and 23. iii– 13.iv.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emelio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 19km S 3 W Empalme [;] 2600m, November 1992 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 26 Feb. 77 [;] D. H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The light brown body color and the unmargined basal median areas of the propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my long time friend and colleague Kees van Achterberg.