Heterospilus maritzaensis 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 : 112-113

Heterospilus maritzaensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 74

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head dark brown with yellow eye orbits and yellow spot on malar space; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face areolate-rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, rugose along notauli, median lobe with median longitudinal raised ridge anteriorly; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas not distinctly margined, rugose, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU equal to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak or absent; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of 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 347557; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] maritzaensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The raised ridge on the median mesoscutal lobe and the yellow spot on the malar space are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the type locality, the Maritza Biological Station in Guanacaste National Park.