Heterospilus kiefferi 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 : 97-99

Heterospilus kiefferi Marsh sp. n. Figure 64

Female.

Body size: 5.0 mm. Color: head brown to dark brown; scape honey yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with white annulus of 4-5 flagellomeres behind apical 6 brown flagellomeres; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly transversely striate; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view brown and bulging behind eye, 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; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate, lateral lobes smooth laterally; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron weakly granulate dorsally, nearly smooth above precoxal sulcus; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate or smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, distinct tubercle present laterally on each side of base of metasomal tergum 1 above hind coxa. 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 longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Cartago [;] 4km NE Canon [;] Genesis II, 2350m [;] viii.1996, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] kiefferi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The tubercle on the propodeum just above the hind coxa, the partially smooth mesoscutal lobes and the broad temple distinguish this species.

Etymology.

Named for J. J. Kieffer who described some Braconidae in the late 1880s and early 1900s.