Heterospilus tricolor 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 : 289-290

Heterospilus tricolor Marsh sp. n. Figure 196

Female.

Body size: 3.0-3.5 mm. Color: head dark brown, yellow spots on face just below antennae; scape yellow, brown laterally, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma dark brown, mesoscutum lighter brown; metasoma dark brown, terga 2 and 5-7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma light brown or honey yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width lass than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2-2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 28-29 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5-7 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinct and margined, sometimes indistinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinct, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with weak but distinct tubercle above hind coxa, sometimes very weakly indicated. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate laterally, rugose medially, length equal to or slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely granulate except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor shorter than first tergum.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, Cerro Rincon [;] 200 meters S. del hito [;] 745m el., virgin forest [;] i.1991, Hanson & Quiros [;] ex. Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] tricolor [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Est. Altmira, 1300-1450m [;] 1km S del Cerro Biolley [;] 23. viii– 13.ix.1996, Malaise [;] L.S. 331700-572100 #44870 [;] R. Vollalobos (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. [;] Las Alturas, 1500m [;] xii.1991, Paul Hanson (ESUW).

Comments.

The dark brown body with the brown mesoscutum and the yellow metasomal terga 2 and 5-7 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is in reference to the tricolored dark brown body with brown mesoscutum and yellow metasomal terga 2 and 5-7.