Heterospilus retheospilus 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 : 402-403

Heterospilus retheospilus Marsh sp. n. Figure 276

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga somewhat lighter brown; scape yellow with weak lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs light brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 18 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove very weak and nearly absent, straight; posterior transverse groove indicated by very weak impressed line, nearly absent; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, viii-ix 1989 [;] Col. Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] retheospilus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The long a narrow metasomal tergum 1 and the white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an anagram of the generic name Heterospilus .