Heterospilus shonan 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 : 408-409

Heterospilus shonan Marsh sp. n. Figure 281

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark brown, metasomal tergum dark brown, remainder of terga lighter 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 narrow, sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 17 flagellomeres, apical 3-5 flagellomeres short, length 2.0-2.5 times width. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate-rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth above precoxal sulcus, granulate or rugose dorsally; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, nearly as long as mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly 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 shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, median raised area bordered laterally by distinct smooth grooves; second tergum granulate on basal half, smooth on apical half; anterior transverse groove indicated by weak shallow line, straight; posterior transverse groove indicated by weak shallow line; third tergum smooth entirely; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Zurqui de Moravia [;] 1600m, v 1992 [;] Col. Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] shonan [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The partially smooth and granulate metasomal tergum 2, short ovipositor and distinct median basal carina on the propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an anagram of Hanson, referring to the collector of the holotype, Paul Hanson.