Heterospilus tolupan 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 : 171-172

Heterospilus tolupan Marsh sp. n. Figure 117

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head, mesosoma and metasomal terga dark brown or black, apical terga slightly lighter; scape light brown without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-7 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate; frons weakly striate or smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 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 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 present, areola weakly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. 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, apical width about equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1-2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA, Alajuela [;] Finca San Gabriel [;] 2 0 Dos Rios, 600m [;] VIII/88, Col. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] tolupan [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The granulate mesopleuron, single distinct cross carina in the prescutellar furrow, hind wing vein SC+R present and the white apical flagellomeres are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Tolupan, an indigenous people of Honduras.