Heterospilus jupiter 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 : 363-364

Heterospilus jupiter Marsh sp. n. Figure 246

Female.

Body size: 2.0 mm. Color: body including legs entirely yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown with basal flagellomeres lighter; wing veins light brown, stigma yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth, rarely with few weak striations; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 15-19 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate, rarely partially smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth or rarely weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth or rarely weakly granulate, basal median carina present and long, areola not completely margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, smooth basally. 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, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum weakly longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak or absent; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: (blank) [;] Dates: 31.I-21.II.1987 [;] 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 [;] jupiter [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA, San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, III 1989 [;] Col. W. Eberhard (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m III-1996 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 3-4 Dec., 76 [;] D. H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The yellow body, single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow and the long median basal carina on the propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Roman god Jupiter.