Heterospilus lasalturus 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 : 245-246

Heterospilus lasalturus Marsh sp. n. Figure 166

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: head bicolored, vertex dark brown, face honey yellow; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma light brown; metasoma brown, meddle terga usually somewhat darker; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; 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 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-23 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in unsculptured area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or 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 beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU slightly shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. [;] Las Alturas, 2050m [;] ix-xi.1992, Paul Hanson [;] ex. Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] lasalturus [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

5 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-12-C, SE-5-O and H-1-O [;] Dates: 19.xii.85-18.i.1986, 5-26.vii.1986, 7-28.xii.1985, 10-23.ix.1986 and 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D Janzen; second labels - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible, [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] Mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day, [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day and [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 31. i– 22.ii.1987; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] Mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] Evergreen species [;] Sun (ESUW).

Comments.

The medium brown body color and the unsculptured area where the notauli meet are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Las Alturas Biological Station where most of the type series was collected.