Heterospilus garifuna 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 : 74-76

Heterospilus garifuna Marsh sp. n. Figure 47

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum yellow at base to brown at apex; mesosoma brown; metasomal terga brown to honey yellow, tergum 2 lighter than other terga; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate medially, smooth near eyes; frons weakly striate near antennal bases; 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 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum 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 absent or extremely short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r equal to length of vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU equal in length to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum weakly costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1-2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 13. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] garifuna [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 25 Oct 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the granulate mesopleuron, smooth face, prescutellar furrow with one cross carinae and the absent hind wing vein SC+R.

Etymology.

Named for the Garifuna, an indigenous people of Belize and Honduras.