Heterospilus colonensis 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 : 334-335

Heterospilus colonensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 225

Female.

Body size: 1.5 mm. Color: head light to medium brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; mesosoma light to medium brown, usually yellow along notauli; metasomal terga 1-2 yellow, remainder of terga light brown; wing veins very light brown, stigma bicolored light brown with apex and base white; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, width about 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 17-18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron weakly granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate or smooth, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area 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 shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum weakly longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum smooth; anterior transverse groove weak or rarely absent; posterior transverse groove weak or rarely absent; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon, 800m [;] xii 1989 - i 1990 [;] Luis Fournier; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] colonensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW).

Comments.

The long ovipositor, light colored body and bicolored stigma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the city of Colon where the type series was collected.