Heterospilus levis 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 : 106-108

Heterospilus levis Marsh sp. n. Figure 70

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow, flagellum brown with apical 10 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1-5 dark brown, terga 6-7 yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate behind ocelli, smooth near eyes; frons weakly striate; face smooth; tem ple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space slightly greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow usually with 1 cross carina, sometimes with weak carinae on each side of median carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, smooth basally. Wings: fore wing vein r as long as 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, apical width 1/2 length; second tergum smooth; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about 1/2 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km southwest of Rincon [;] 10m, July 1991. P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] levis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 3km [;] S.W. Rincon, 10m [;] IX-XI 1989, Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 10km W [;] Piedras Blancas, 100m [;] VI-VIII 1989, Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas, ACO [;] Golfito, P.N. Corcovado, 745m [;] Est. Agujas, Cerro Rincon [;] 15. v– 15.vi.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276900-521500 #52744 [;] Malaise trap (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia, ACCVC [;] Sarapiqui, Zona Prot. La Selva [;] 3km. S. de Sarapiqui, 50-100m [;] 18.iv.1988m, H. A. Hespenheide [;] manual (red, libre). #54835 [;] L.N. 268800-535300 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] P.N. Braulio Carillo [;] 9.5km E tunnel, 1000m [;] x-xii 1989, P. Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The smooth metasomal terga 2-7 and the narrow tergum 1 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin levis meaning smooth in reference to the smooth metasomal terga.