Heterospilus yaqui 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 : 186-187

Heterospilus yaqui Marsh sp. n. Figure 129

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face, temple and eye orbits yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown; wing veins light brown, stigma brown with yellow at base; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate; frons weakly striate; face rugose-striate medially; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 23 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, basal median carina absent, areola, not distinctly margined areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, granulate basally. 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 longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weakly present, straight; posterior transverse groove weakly present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Prov. [;] Heredia, F. La Selva [;] 3km S Pto. Viejo [;] 10°26'N, 84°01W; second label (white, printed) - at fallen branch of [;] Pentaclethra macroloba; third label (white, partially printed and hand written) - 9.iv.1984 [;] H.A. Hespenheide; fourth label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] yaqui [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The partially yellow head and the brown stripe laterally on the scape are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Yaqui, an indigenous people from Sonora, Mexico.