Heterospilus kikapu 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 : 244-245

Heterospilus kikapu Marsh sp. n. Figure 165

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: entire body light brown or honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-6 flagellomeres white, apical one sometimes brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face striate; temple in dorsal view broad, equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate, nearly smooth; notauli weakly scrobiculate or smooth, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granulate or smooth; prescutellar furrow with one cross carina; mesopleuron weakly granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, propodeum with small but distinct tubercle just above each hind coxae. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU slightly shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] May 1993. INBio-OET; second label (white, printed) - 18 Mayo 1993 [;] Bosque secundario [;] M/04/099; third label - INBio bar code; fourth label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] kikapu [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica, Heredia Prov. [;] OTS. La Selva, 100m [;] 1993 II-III P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Jardin Bot. [;] Las Cruces, XII 1988 [;] 1200m, Col. P. Hanson (MICR).

Comments.

The single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow and the light brown body are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Kikapú, an indigenous people of Mexico.