Heterospilus ektorincon 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 : 229-231

Heterospilus ektorincon Marsh sp. n. Figure 155

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head dark brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-6 flagellomeres below apical-most 5-8 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2 and usually 3 yellow medially, dark brown laterally, terga 4 and 5 dark brown, remainder of terga lighter brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate, usually with distinct transverse rugae behind ocelli; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 1.5-2.0 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24-28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in short triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas indistinctly margined, granulate but margined by areolate groove, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with distinct tubercle just above 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 shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, somewhat rugose medially, length equal to or slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Res. Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km. SW Rincon, 10m [;] iv.1993, P. Hanson [;] Malaise, primary forest; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] ektorincon [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

14 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional dates of iii.1993, xii.1992 and ii.1993 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce [;] 3km. SW. Rincon, 10m. [;] vi.1991 and ii.1992, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Rd. to Rincon, 10km W. [;] of Pan-Amer. Hwy, 100m [;] III-V 1989, Hanson & Gauld (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 10km W [;] Piedras Blancas, 100m [;] VI-VIII 1989, Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 24km. W [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] III.1993 and vi.1991, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar. [;] Cerro Rincon, 200m [;] S. hito, 745m, ii. [;] 1991, Hanson/Godoy (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] P.N. Corcovado, Est [;] Sirena, 50m [;] IV-VIII 1989 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntar. [;] P.N. Corcovado [;] Est. Sirena, 50m [;] x-xii 1990 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 3km SW [;] Rincon [;] 10m, xii 1989-iii 1990 [;] Col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km SW of Rincon, 10m [;] October 1992, P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, 23km. N. Pto. [;] Jimenez, La Palma, 10m [;] viii-ix.1991, P. Hanson [;] Malaise, in large trees (ESUW). 1 ♀. Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Peninsula Osa, 10m [;] 3km SW Rincon [;] ix– 1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo, [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] xii.1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon [;] 30km N Cariari, 100m [;] Sector Cocori, Malaise [;] iii.1995, E. Rojas #4524 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Limon [;] 16km W. Guapiles [;] 400m, i-iv.1991 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Guanac. [;] Estac. Pitilla, 9Km S [;] Santa Cecilia, 700m [;] IV/1989, I Gauld (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Braulio Carrillo N.P. [;] 400m IV.10-11.85 [;] Henri Goulet (AEIC). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia: [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Sep 1995, INBio-OET; second label - 29 Setiembre 1995 [;] M/05/463 [;] Bosque primario (INBC). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia: [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Mar 1996, INBio-OET; second label - 5 Marzo 1966 [;] Borde Suampo [;] M/18.703 (INBC). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia: [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Feb 1998, INBio-OET; second label - 19 Febrero 1998 [;] M/18/702 [;] Borde suampo (INBC). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] PiedrasBlancas, 200m [;] XII-89-III-90 and III-VI-90 Hanson (MICR). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Jardin Bot. [;] Las Cruces, XII/1988 [;] 1200m, Col. P. Hanson (MICR). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] 11mi. from Turrialba [;] "Los Esperales", C.A.T.I.E. [;] 5-II-1985 [;] P. Stansly (TAMU).

Comments.

The rugae on the vertex and the granulate face and metasomal terga 4-6 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Greek prefix ekto-, meaning out of or from, in reference to most of the type series being collected near the town of Rincon in Puntarenas Province.