Heterospilus zunigai 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 : 187-188

Heterospilus zunigai Marsh sp. n. Figure 130

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits yellow or honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum entirely brown; mesosoma brown, light brown along notauli, scutellum and metanotum; metasoma dark brown, terga 2 light brown, terga 5-7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma brown medially, yellow at base, apex and along anterior margin; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 22-27 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, smooth, basal median carina present but short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinal costate, length longer than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-5-O [;] Dates: 24. v– 14.vi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written)- HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] zunigai [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Biol. Maritza, 600m [;] i.1997. C. Zuniga. Malaise [;] L.N. 326900-373000 #47557 (ESUW).

Comments.

The smooth mesopleuron just above the precoxal sulcus, the granulate mesoscutum and the smooth face are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for C. Zuniga, one of the INBio parataxonomists.