Heterospilus emilius 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 : 63-64

Heterospilus emilius Marsh sp. n. Figure 37

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma brown, terga 2-3 yellow medially; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex weakly transversely striate; frons weakly striate, nearly smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width 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; 17 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas granulate, distinctly margined, basal median carina present, 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 equal to length; second tergum longitudinally striate; anterior transverse groove absent; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor length equal to length of metasomal terga 1+2.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 18. i– 8.ii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] emilius [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The smooth mesopleuron, smooth face and short antennae are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the San Emilio Forest in Santa Rosa National Park where the type was collected.