Heterospilus attraholucus 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 : 319-320

Heterospilus attraholucus Marsh sp. n. Figure 213

Female.

Body size: 2.25 mm. Color: head with vertex and temple dark brown, face light brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga honey yellow to light brown, tergum 2 yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown, basal flagellomeres yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; 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 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina very short but distinct, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly longer than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, raised median area smooth or weakly granulate between carinae, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth, except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Guanacaste Pr. [;] Guan. Conservation Area [;] Santa Rosa hdq., 200m [;] lighttrap, 6-VII 1997 [;] L.J. van der Ent; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] attraholucus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-C-6 [;] Dates: 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 11 Sep 77, 29 Oct 77 and 6 Nov 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill and Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The longer fore wing vein r, the absence of hind wing vein SC+R and the lighter colored metasomal terga are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin attraho, meaning draw to, and the Latin lucis, meaning light, in reference to the holotype being attracted to and caught in a light trap.