Heterospilus masneri 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 : 379-380

Heterospilus masneri Marsh sp. n. Figure 259

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga lighter brown; scape light brown without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow to honey yellow. Head: vertex smooth, rarely with weak granulations near ocelli; frons smooth; face weakly granulate or striate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 20-24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly, rarely partially smooth; notauli smooth posteriorly, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate or rarely smooth, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond or interstitial with vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined or half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km SW of Rincon, 10m [;] Mar-April 1992, P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] masneri [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 21.ii.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] evergreen species [;] sun (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top labels - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-3-O, H-2-C and blank [;] Dates: 31. i– 21.ii.1987, 6-27.ix.1986 and 21. ii– 14.iii.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second labels - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland, 10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated pert or day and [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 3km. SW. Rincon, 10m [;] iii.1993 Paul Hanson coll. [;] Malaise, primary forest (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, 5km N, [;] Puerto Jimenez, 10m [;] I-II-1993 P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 3km [;] SW Rincon, 10m [;] Malaise-primary forest [;] viii.1991, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, Puerto Jimenez [;] 10m, January 1991, full sun, [;] grassy & weedy site [;] P. Hanson, ex. Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA. Prov. Puntarenas. P.N. [;] Corcovado. Sector Tigre. 34m 28 [;] NOV 2002. J. Azofeifa Zuniga. De [;] Golpe. L S 277800 529600 #72455 (INBC).

Comments.

The weakly granulate or smooth mesoscutal lobes and the medium length of the ovipositor are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my long time friend and fellow hymenopterist, Lubomir Masner.