Heterospilus szepligetii 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 : 168-169

Heterospilus szepligetii Marsh sp. n. Figure 115

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1-4 dark brown, tergum 2 lighter brown, tergum 5 brown with yellow apical edge, terga 6-7 yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view somewhat narrow, width slightly less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli weakly scro biculate or smooth, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, 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 longitudinally costate, apical width less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate, greatest width about 4 times median length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; third tergum costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Braulio Carillo N.P. [;] 600m, 25.iii.1990 [;] J. S. Noyes, coll.; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] szepligetii [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] BraulioCarrillo N.P. [;] 250-500m IV.10.85 [;] Henri Goulet (AEIC).

Comments.

The narrow metasomal tergum 2 and the white apical flagellomeres are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for G. V. Szépligeti who described many braconids in the early 1900s.