Heterospilus cero 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 : 329-330

Heterospilus cero Marsh sp. n. Figure 221

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad but sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 18-21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate; notauli weakly scrobicu late, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, short, areola distinctly 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 present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate-granulate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak or apparently absent, straight; posterior transverse groove weak or apparently absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sect. Palo Verde, Cerro Guaycan [;] 160m, Malaise trap [;] 15. vi– 15.vii.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 259350-259350 #52850; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] cero [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, ACT [;] Bagaces, P.N. Palo Verde [;] Sec. P. Verde 0-50m [;] Extremo E. Campo Aterrizaje [;] Malaise trap, #53260 [;] 17. viii– 13.ix.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 260952-385020 (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 9 Nov 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The distinctly margined areola on the propodeum and the ovipositor as long as the metasoma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.