Heterospilus mam 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 : 252-254

Heterospilus mam Marsh sp. n. Figure 171

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 1 at apex, tergum 2 medially and terga 5-7 yellow; scape yellow with weak lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 1-2 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly granulate or partially smooth; frons weakly granulate or smooth; face smooth; 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 greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli smooth, meeting at scutellum in unsculptured area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina, occasionally with weak carinae on each side; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with 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; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS-La Selva. 100m [;] I-II-1993, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] mam [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R. F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 3km. SW. Rincon, 10m [;] ii.1992, Paul Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The smooth mesoscutal lobes, the short ovipositor and the white annulus at the apex of the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Mam, a Mayan people of Guatemala.