Heterospilus sabrinae 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 : 277-279

Heterospilus sabrinae Marsh sp. n. Figure 189

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 usually yellow medially, terga 5-7 yellow or lighter brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 5-7 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow with hind femur brown on apical half. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width lass than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in small indistinct costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinct but not margined, long and somewhat narrow, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose, propodeum with distinct tubercle above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r 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, occasionally granulate medially at base, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight or very weakly sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely granulate except for costate transverse groove, or granulate-costate at base, granulate apically; terga 4-7 weakly granulate, occasionally smooth at extreme base; ovipositor as long as metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce [;] 3km SW. Rincon, 10m, [;] vi.1991, Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] sabrinae [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

7 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional date of Oct. 1991 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] ACO, Golfito, PN Corcovado [;] Est. Agujas. Las Quebraditas [;] 640m, 8-9.ix.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 275200-520100 #53263 [;] Amarilla (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] ACO. Golfito, RF Golfo Dulce [;] Est. Agujas, 250-300m [;] 3-24.vi.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276750-526550 #52840 [;] Red de Golpe (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, Puerto Jimenez [;] 10m, January 1991, full sun, [;] grassy & weedy site [;] P. Hanson, ex. Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Golfo Dulce, 24km W. [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] ii.1993, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, 23km. N. Pto. [;] Jimenez, La Palma, 10m [;] viii-ix.1991, P. Hanson [;] Malaise, in large trees (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Peninsula Osa, 10 meters [;] 5km NW Puerto Jimenez, [;] xi-xii.1990, Paul Hanson [;] abandoned cacao orchard (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] Pe. Osa, Puerto Jimenez [;] 10m, VI-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Peninsula Osa Puerto [;] Jimenez, 10m, x-xi.1991 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise trap [;] grassy, disturbed site (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Puntar, Golfo Dulce [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, vi-viii 1989 [;] Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa, 23km. N. Pro. [;] Jimenez, La Palma, 10m [;] VI-VIII-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Misc. Doryctinae [;] Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] R. F. Golfo Dulce, 5km. W. [;] Piedras Blancas, 100m [;] IV-V-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar. [;] R.B. Carara, Estac. [;] Quebrada Bonita, 50m [;] V-VI 1989, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas, ACO [;] Golfito, Est. Agujas, 250-350m [;] Res. Ftal. Golfo Dulce, Amarilla [;] 3-24.vii.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276750-526550 #52839 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 1, #248 and Canopy fogging 28 [;] 1.xi.1993 and 22.x.1994 [;] Project ALAS (M.01.248) and (FPM28) (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA: Prov. [;] Heredia, F. La Selva [;] 3km S Pto. Viejo [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W; second label - 21-23.iv.1989 [;] H.A. Hespenheide: third label - Malaise trap - 1-2 year [;] Second Growth-Forest edge (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Heredia, Chilamate [;] 75m, xii 89-iii 1990 [;] Hanson & Godoy (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva [;] 50-150m, 10°26'N [;] 84°01'W, Aug. 1992 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS - La Selva, 100m [;] 16-30 IX.1992 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] xii.1992, xi.1992, I-II-1993 and III-IV-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] 1-15 ix 1992 and X.1992, P. Hanson [;] huertos Malaise trap [;] set by G. Wright (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva [;] 50-150m, 10°26'N [;] 84°01'W [;] ii-iv 1993, P. Hanson [;] huertos Malaise trap [;] set by G. Wright (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Braulio Carillo N.P. [;] 600m, 25.iii.1990 [;] J. S. Noyes, coll. (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] P.N. Braulio Carillo [;] 9.5km E tunnel, 1000m [;] vii-ix 1989, P.Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, vi-vii.1998 [;] W. Eberhard (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon, 640m [;] Res. Biol. Hitoy Cerere [;] Est. H.C., Send. Bobocara [;] 17. vi– 17.vii.1999, F. Umana [;] L.N. 184250-640500 #52859 [;] ex. Malaise trap (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Limon [;] 16km W. Guapiles [;] 400m, III 1989 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela, ACA [;] R.B.San Ramon, 900m [;] Malaise, 16-30.vii.1998 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-6-C and blank [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 and 8-29.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: blank [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 year old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 27. ix– 18.x.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50 yr. old deciduous [;] forest, Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 27. ix– 18.x.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Guanacaste [;] Estac. Mengo [;] SW Volcan Cacao [;] 1100m, 1988-1989 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Arenales, W. side of [;] Volcan Cacao, 900m [;] xi-xii 1990, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1150m [;] vii.1996, A. Masis, Malaise [;] L.N. 323150-375500 #47555 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Bagaces [;] Pque. Ntl. Palo Verde, Sct. P. Verde [;] Cerro, Guayacan, 212m, Malaise [;] 13. x– 11.xi.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 259350-389600 #54006 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Pitilia, 700m [;] 9km. S de Santa Cecilia [;] viii-ix.1996, P. Rios & [;] C. Moraga, Malaise [;] L.N. 329950-380450 #47563 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sec. Catalina, Fila Catalina [;] 250m, 11 Oct– 9 Nov 1999 [;] I. Jimenez, Malaise trap [;] L.N. 257400-400000 #54003 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sector Palo Verde [;] 0-50m, Red de Golpe [;] 5-12.x.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 260952-386020 #53602 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde, 212m [;] Sec. Palo Verde, Cerro Guayacan [;] 13. ix– 13.x.1999, I. Jimenez, Malaise [;] L.N. 259350-389600 #53499 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, PN Palo Verde [;] Sec. Palo Verde, 250m [;] Amarilla, #53297 [;] L.N. 257400-400000 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sect. Palo Verde, Cerro Guayacan [;] 212m, Malaise trap [;] 13. ix– 13.x.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 259350-389000 #53499 (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] RF Golfo Dulce el 200m [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] P. Hanson vii.1992 and xii.1992 (TAMU).

Comments.

The short ovipositor, bicolored metasomal tergum 2 and the tubercles on the propodeum above the hind coxa are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my daughter-in-law, Sabrina Marsh.