Heterospilus bennetti 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 : 209-210

Heterospilus bennetti Marsh sp. n. Figure 141

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 usually yellow medially; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 5-7 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma usually brown, rarely honey yellow of bicolored brown with yellow at base, apex and along apical margin; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 timed diameter of lateral ocellus; flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate and shining; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area, median longitudinal dimple-like depression present; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola usually weakly but distinctly margined, often not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with distinct tubercle above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, lateral costae angled toward midline, raised smooth area medially at base of tergum; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon [;] 800m, vi–vii 1990 [;] Col. Luis Fournier; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] bennetti [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

11 ♀♀, Costa Rica, Cartago [;] Turrialba, La Isabel [;] 650m, Café, IV-1994 [;] M. Cerda & P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol [;] Las Alturas, 1500m [;] vi.1992, traps #1 + #2, [;] Malaise, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golf Dulce [;] 3km southwest of Rincon [;] 10m, July 1991, P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-10-C and blank [;] Dates: 6-27.ix.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986, 7-28.xii.1985 and 18. i– 8.ii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-4-C and #2 [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986 and 13. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O and H-3-O [;] Dates: 20.xii.86-10.i.1987, 14. vi– 5.vii.1986 and 10-31.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-9-O and blank [;] Dates: 16. xi– 7.xii.1985, 2-23.iii.1986 and 8-29.vi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [O] in clearing fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-10-C and 6 [;] Dates: 8. ii– 2.iii.1986 and 16. ix– 7.xii.1985 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-O-5 and blank [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 and 13. ix– 4.x.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 27. ix– 18.x.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50 yr Old deciduous [;] Forest, Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 27. ix– 18.x.86 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] P.N. Guanacaste [;] below Pitilia, 500m [;] 7-8.iii.1990, J. S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Biol. Maritza, 600m [;] i.1997, C. Zuniga, Malaise [;] L.N. 326900-373000 #47557 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sec. P. Verde, 150 de la Est. [;] 0-50m, 17. viii– 13.ix.1999 [;] I. Jimenez, Malaise #53257 [;] L.N.260952-385020 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] PiedrasBlancas, 200m [;] XII-89-III 1990 Hanson (MICR). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, SanJosé [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] II 1990 [;] col. Luis Fournier (MICR). 3 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito - Las Cruces [;] 5-VI-1988 1200m [;] P. Hanson (TAMU). 4 ♀♀, Costa Rica [;] San Vito, Puntarenas [;] 19 December 1974 and 1-5 January 1975 [;] M. Palmer (TSMU). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] RF Golfo Dulce el 200m [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] P. Hanson x.1992 (TAMU).

Comments.

The raised area medially at the base of metasomal tergum 2, the costae angled toward the midline of tergum 2 and the dimple-like depression at the junction of the notauli are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my grand-son, Bennett Holoski.