Heterospilus complanatus 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 : 222-224

Heterospilus complanatus Marsh sp. n. Figure 151

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head with vertex dark brown, face lighter brown; scape brown, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma bicolored, mesoscutum dark brown except light brown medially and along notauli, propleuron dark brown, pronotum lighter brown, mesopleuron and venter dark brown, propodeum light brown; metasomal terga brown, tergum 1 marked with dark brown at base and laterally, terga 2-4 dark brown laterally; wing veins light brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: flattened dorso-ventrally; vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: flattened dorso-ventrally; mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in wide rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas very narrow and not distinctly margined, weakly granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose or areolate. 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 less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present, curved anteriorly at sides; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 smooth, tergum 4 costate at base; ovipositor shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Biol. Maritza, 600m [;] i.1997, C. Zuniga, Malaise [;] L.N. 326900-373000 #47557; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] complanatus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The flattened body is distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin complanatus meaning flattened in reference to the flat body.