Heterospilus hespenheidei 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 : 357-358

Heterospilus hespenheidei Marsh sp. n. Figure 242

Female.

Body size: 1.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 usually yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown, basal flagel lomere often lighter; wing veins brown, stigma usually brown, occasionally lighter; legs yellow or light brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, slightly bulging behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 12-16 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli weakly indicated or absent, usually smooth, meeting posteriorly in unsculptured area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum weakly longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak, straight; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Heredia [;] Pr: La Selva Biol. Sta. [;] 3km S Pto. Viejo [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W; second label (white, partially printed and hand written) - 19.v.1990 [;] H.A. Hespenheide [;] on dead citrus; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] hespenheidei [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional dates of 18 and 20.v.1990 (ESUW).

Comments.

The long ovipositor, short body and weak notauli are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the collector of the type series, Henry Hespenheide.