Heterospilus flavostigmus 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 : 351-352

Heterospilus flavostigmus Marsh sp. n. Figure 238

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark brown or black, metasoma honey yellow or light brown, tergum 1 often darker; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown, basal flagellomere often yellow; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, somewhat bulging behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth above precoxal sulcus, weakly granulate dorsally; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola somewhat distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-rugose; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth or weakly granulate apically; terga 4-7 smooth or weakly granulate; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-7-O [;] Dates: 8-29.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] flavostigmus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype with date of 14. vii– 6.ix.1986 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela, ACA [;] San Carlos, R.F. Arenal, 600m [;] Sec. la Penisula, Amarilla [;] 26-29.xi.1999, G. Carballo [;] L.N. 271500-453800 #54375 (ESUW).

Comments.

The yellow stigma and light brown or honey yellow metasoma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the Latin flavus, meaning yellow, in reference to the yellow stigma.