Heterospilus huddlestoni 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 : 92-93

Heterospilus huddlestoni Marsh sp. n. Figure 60

Female.

Body size: 3.0-3.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; metasoma dark brown; metasomal terga dark brown, terga 4-7 occasionally lighter; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 20-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, median lobe often with median longitudinal groove posteriorly and ridge anteriorly; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in wide rectangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granu late; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, rugose or rugose-granulate, basal median carina absent, 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 equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak, often absent; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 10, #388 [;] 4.iv.1994 [;] Project ALAS (M.10.388); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] huddlestoni [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon [;] 30km N Cariari, 100m [;] Sector Cocori, Malaise [;] iii.1995, E. Rojas #4524 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.i.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] evergreen species [;] sun; third label - BH-11-O [;] 10-31.i.87 (ESUW).

Comments.

The dark brown body and the wide costate area where the notauli meet are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the late British braconidologist, Tom Huddleston.