Heterospilus puntarensis 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 : 143-145

Heterospilus puntarensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 96

Female.

Body size: 4.0 mm. Color: head with vertex brown, remainder including eye orbits yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum light brown basally to dark brown apically; mesosoma and metasoma dark brown, apical metasomal terga lighter; legs yellow; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored, brown with yellow apex. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose; temple narrow, not bulging behind eye, width in dorsal view slightly less than eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 25-35 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting before prescutellar furrow in triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granulate, at least along sides; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth above precoxal sulcus, weakly striate dorsally; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, length about half length of mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinct but not margined, basal median areas granulate, basal median carina distinct but 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 length equals apical width, longitudinally costate or costate-rugose, few cross carinae at extreme base; second tergum longitudinally costate, apical width less than 3 times length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove distinct; third tergum longitudinally costate on basal 3/4, smooth on apical 1/4; tergum 4 longitudinally costate on basal 3/4, smooth on apical 1/4; terga 5-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R. F. Golfo Dulce [;] 3km. SW. Rincon. 10m. [;] iii.1993 Paul Hanson coll. [;] Malaise. primary forest; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] puntarensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The rugose propodeum with basal median areas not distinctly margined and the nearly entirely costate metasomal tergum 4 are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the type locality of Puntarenas Province.