Heterospilus malaisei 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 : 377-378

Heterospilus malaisei Marsh sp. n. Figure 257

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga somewhat lighter brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical 5-10 flagellomeres white, apical flagellomere occasionally brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space slightly greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 25-29 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate, occasionally smooth near precoxal sulcus; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined and narrow, smooth, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, granulate basally, propodeum with more or less distinct tubercle or raised carina apically on each side just above hind coxa and on each side of metasomal base. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 1M, 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 about twice apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak or occasionally absent, straight; posterior transverse groove weak or occasionally absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] 1200msnm, VIII-IX 1988 [;] Coll. P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] malaisei [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 3km SW. Rincon, 10m [;] vi.1991, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] 2km SW de Cerro Cacao [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1400m [;] 21-28.v.1992, Curso Biod. [;] L.N. 323300-375700 #6900 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 100-1150m [;] ix.1996, I. Villegas, Malaise [;] L.N. 323150-375700 #47559 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1150m [;] viii.1996, M. Pereira [;] L.N. 323150-375500 #47561 [;] Malaise trap (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Pitilia, 700m [;] 9km. S de Santa Cecilia [;] viii-ix.1996, P. Rios & [;] C. Moraga, Malaise [;] L.N. 329950-380450 #47563 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, vi.1997 [;] W. Eberhard (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Alajuela [;] Finca San Gabriel [;] 2 0 dos Rios, 600m [;] VIII/88, Col. Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The smooth mesoscutum, narrow temple and white apical flagellomeres are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for René Malaise whose invention of the Malaise trap enhanced our knowledge of Hymenoptera diversity in general and parasitic wasps in particular.