Heterospilus agujasensis 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 : 198-199

Heterospilus agujasensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 134

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; 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 greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 19 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli deeply scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area, mesoscutum along notauli rugose; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, more or less circular, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with small but 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; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely granulate except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Prov. Puntarenas [;] ACO, Golfito, PN Corcovado [;] Est. Agujas, Cerro Rincon, 745m [;] 17. iv– 16.v.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276900-521500 #52781; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] agujasensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The mesoscutum being rugose along the notauli, the granulate metasomal terga 3-7 and the white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Agujas Biological Station where the holotype was collected.