Heterospilus cachiensis 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 : 46-47

Heterospilus cachiensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 25

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: head yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 4-5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown except mesoscutum light brown; metasomal terga 1-2 dark brown, terga 3-4 dark brown basally, yellow apically, terga 5-7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma brown with yellow apex and base; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate medially, smooth near eyes; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granu late; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, usually as long as mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r nearly equal to vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width 1/2 length; second tergum longitudinally costate; 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+2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Cartago [;] 2km. NE Cachi [;] 1200m, vii-ix.1995 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] cachiensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 14, #288 [;] 1.xii.1993 [;] Project ALAS (M, 14 28810) (ESUW).

Comments.

The long precoxal sulcus, which usually extends to posterior margin of the mesopleuron, is distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named after the type locality of Cachi in Cartago Province.