Heterospilus amuzgo 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 : 200-201

Heterospilus amuzgo Marsh sp. n. Figure 135

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head honey yellow, vertex somewhat darker; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1 and 2 dark brown, tergum 3 yellow basally, brown apically, terga 4-7 honey yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly granulate, smooth near eyes; frons weakly granulate; face weakly granulate, smooth near eyes; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eyes, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 22-24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, 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, length about equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely smooth except for costate posterior transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, iii-iv.1998 [;] W. Eberhard & P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] amuzgo [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The brown flagellum and larger ocelli are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Amuzgo, an indigenous people of Mexico.