Heterospilus granulatus 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 : 81-82

Heterospilus granulatus Marsh sp. n. Figure 52

Female.

Body size: 4.0 mm. Color: head with vertex, frons and face brown, malar space, temple and eye orbits yellow, scape light brown or honey yellow, without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown or black, mesoscutal lobes, lower portion of mesopleuron and venter light brown or honey yellow; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown or black, tergum 2 dark brown with honey yellow stripes laterally, remaining terga dark brown basally, lighter brown apically; legs yellow, femora, especially hind femur, brown; wing veins brown, stigma brown with yellow at apex. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face granulate; 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; 30-35 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in rugose triangular area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 distinct median cross carina and 2 weak carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina present and long, areola usually not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. 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 costate-granulate, apical width less than length; second tergum costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated; third tergum entirely granulate; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor 1/2 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 24km W. Piedras Blancas, [;] 200m, [;] Feb. 1992, Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] granulatus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon ACLAC [;] Central, R.B. Hitoy Cerere [;] Est. H. Cerere, 100-140m [;] Send. Toma de Agua, Malaise [;] 17. xi– 17.xii.1999, F. Umana [;] L.N. 184600-643400 #54940 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Cerro Tortuguero, 0-120m, P.N. [;] Tortuguero, Prov. Limón, COSTA [;] RICA. Feb 1993. R. Delgado. [;] L-N-285000,588000 (INBC). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Sep 1993, INBio-OET; second label - 01 Setiembre 1993 [;] M/03/194 [;] Bosque primario (INBC).

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the granulate metasomal terga and the yellow stripes laterally on metasomal tergum 2.

Etymology.

The specific name is in reference to the distinctly granulate metasomal terga.