Heterospilus escazuensis 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 : 65-66

Heterospilus escazuensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 39

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum yellow basally to brown apically; mesosoma brown, propodeum somewhat darker; metasomal terga 1, 2 and base of 3 brown, apex of 3 and remainder of terga yellow; wing veins light brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate, costae somewhat circular around ocelli; frons transversely costate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; at least 18 flagellomeres (broken). Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate above precoxal sulcus, rugose-costate dorsally; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate-rugose, 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; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, apical width slightly less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1-2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, ix.1998 [;] W. Eberhard; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] escazuensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, C. Rica: Escazú [;] May 21, 1987 [;] H.&M. Townes (AEIC).

Comments.

The granulate mesopleuron, the costae being somewhat circular around the ocelli and the brown or honey yellow body are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named after the type locality of San Antonio de Escazu in San Jose Province.