Heterospilus rugosus Marsh sp. n. Figure 105

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga dark brown, apical terga somewhat lighter; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, rugose along notauli, lobes covered nearly entirely with sparse short yellow hair; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum rugose; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas not distinctly margined, rugose or areolate-rugose, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r about equal in length to vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU about equal to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, median raised area prominent, apical width slightly greater than length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to combined lengths of metasomal terga 1-2.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 21 [;] 10.x.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FOT21); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] rugosus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The strongly rugose scutellum, mesoscutum and propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology .

The specific name is from the Latin rugosus meaning wrinkled in reference to the rugose mesosoma.