Heterospilus nueve 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 : 384-386

Heterospilus nueve Marsh sp. n. Figure 263

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits honey yellow; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown with apical terga lighter brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; 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 equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate or smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond 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, median raised area distinctly margined and with cross carina at base; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 37 [;] 15.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FVK37); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] nueve [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Limon [;] sur de Iriquois [;] 300m, 23/V/1987 [;] Col. Paul Hanson (MICR). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia: [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Aug 1998, INBio-OET; second label - 06 Agosto 1998 [;] Borde suampo [;] M/18/714 (INBC).

Comments.

The absent posterior transverse groove of metasomal tergum 3, the distinct median basal carina of the propodeum and the brown flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.