Heterospilus limonensis 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 : 108-109

Heterospilus limonensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 71

Female.

Body size: 3.0-4.0 mm. Color: vertex brown, frons, face, temple and eye orbits yellow or honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum entirely brown; mesosoma dark brown, mesoscutal lobes and venter light brown; metasomal terga 1-2 and basal half of 3 dark brown, apical half of tergum 3 and terga 4-7 honey yellow, darker laterally; legs yellow; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow apex. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose or rugose-costate; temple in dorsal view narrow, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 25-35 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting before scutellar furrow in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with one cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than length of mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinct and margined, basal median areas granulate, basal median carina distinct but short, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M present; hind wing vein SC+R, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum length about equal to apical width, longitudinally costate; second tergum longitudinally costate, apical width less than 3 times length; anterior transverse groove distinct, straight; posterior transverse groove distinct; third tergum longitudinally costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4-7 smooth, tergum 4 costate at base; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Limon, ACLAC [;] Central, R. B. Hitoy Cerere [;] Est. H. Cerere, 100-140m. [;] Send. Toma de Agua, Malaise [;] 17. xi– 17.xii.1999. F. Umana [;] L.N.184600-643400 #54940; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] limonensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Limon [;] 4km NE Bribri [;] 50m. IX-XI 1989 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is similar to Heterospilus puntarensis but differs in the single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow, the fourth metasomal tergum being mostly smooth and the bicolored mesosoma.

Etymology.

Named for the locality of the type specimens, Limón Province.