Heterospilus dani 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 : 225-227

Heterospilus dani Marsh sp. n. Figure 153

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 1 sometimes, terga 2 and 5-7 always yellow; scape yellow, usually with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, occasionally this stripe weak or absent; flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly granulate; frons weakly granulate; face weakly granulate or partially smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space slightly greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 17-21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in very small weakly costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a interstitial with vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate-granulate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate- granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 3km. SW. Rincon, 10m [;] ii.1992, Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] dani [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

10 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional dates of xii.1992 and vi.1991 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce, 3km [;] SW, Rincon, 10m [;] VI-VIII 1989, Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F.Golfo Dulce, 3km [;] SW Rincon, 10m [;] Malaise-primary forest [;] viii.1991, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. [;] Las Alturas, 1750m [;] IX-XI.1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Res. Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km. SW Rincon, 10m [;] xii.1992, P. Hanson [;] Malaise, primary forest (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Rd. to Rincon, 24km W. [;] of Pan-Amer. Hwy. 200m [;] II-III 1989, Hanson & Gauld (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: [;] Puntar, Golfo Dulce [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, vi-viii 1989 [;] Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 24km. W [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] III.1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 3km. [;] S.W. Rincon, 10m [;] I.1992, P. Hanson (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site: H-2-C and H-4-C [;] Dates: 27. xi– 18.x.1986, 24. v– 14.vi.1986 and 8-29.x.1986; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 8 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site: H-1-O, H-3-O and blank [;] Dates; 26. x– 16.xi.1985, 29. xi– 20.xii.1986, 10-31.i.1987, 27. ix– 16.x.1986, 18. x– 8.xi.1986, 14. viii– 6.x.1986 and 16. xi– 7.xii.1985; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site: SE-8-C and blank [;] Dates; 8-29.xi.1986 and 20. xii– 10.i.1986/7; 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: SE-5-O [;] Dates; 6-23.ix.1986; 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: blank [;] Dates; 24. v– 14.vi.1986; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: BH-10-C [;] Guanacaste Province [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Pk. [;] 300m, (dry season) [;] 10-31 January 1987; second label - Bosque Humedo, mature [;] dry forest with high [;] proportion evergreen [;] species, fully shaded [;] Townes style Malaise [;] Ian Gauld coll. (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise H-3-O [;] regenerating woodland [;] <10 yr. old, Ian Gauld [;] 5-26.vii.2986, clearing (ESUW). 1 ♀ Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] regenerating woodland [;]>10yr. old, 300 metres [;] 6-27.ix.1986, I.D.Gauld [;] ex. Townes Malaise H3-O [;] direct sun daily, wet (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 21.ii.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Full Shade; third label - BH-10-C [;] 31. i– 21.ii.87 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] W. side Volcan Orosi [;] Estac. Maritza, 600m; second label - GNP Biodiversity Survey [;] 1989, Malaise trap [;] L-N-326900-373000 #6834 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km SW of Rincon, 10m [;] Mar-April 1992, P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon [;] 800m, iii-iv 1990 [;] Col. Luis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Alajuela [;] San Pedro de la [;] Tigra Cacao, 200m [;] iii-iv 1990, R. Cespedes (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Carthago Pr. [;] Dulce Nombre, Vivero [;] Linda Vista, 1300m [;] 1994: v-vi, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Cartago [;] Turrialba, La Isabel [;] 650m, Café, IV-1994 [;] M. Cerda & P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] RF Golfo Dulce el 200m [;] 24km W Piedras Blancas [;] P. Hanson ix.1992 (TAMU).

Comments.

The weakly sculptured area where the notauli meet and the bicolored metasomal terga are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my son-in-law, Dan Holoski.