Heterospilus wrightae 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 : 297-298

Heterospilus wrightae Marsh sp. n. Figure 202

Female.

Body size: 2.5-3.0 mm. Color: body entirely dark brown; scape brown, flagellum entirely brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width slightly less than 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; 23-28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area and often with dimple-like depression at this junction; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas small and not distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r 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, occasionally rugose medially; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

First label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva [;] 50-150m, 10.26N, 84.01W [;] ii-iv 1993, P. Hanson [;] huertos Malaise trap [;] set by G. Wright; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] wrightae [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] 3km S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS, La Selva, 100m [;] X.1992, P. Hanson [;] huertos Malaise trap [;] set by G. Wright (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva [;] 50-150m, 10.26 N [;] 84.01 W, Aug. 1992 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 32 [;] 3.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS (FVK32) (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA: Prov. [;] Heredia, F. La Selva [;] 3km S Pto. Viejo [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W; second label - 28.vii.1982 [;] H. A. Hespenheide; third label - At foliar nectarines [;] of Soc....(?) [;] 2-3 yr. plot (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Limon [;] 4km NE Bribri [;] 50m, IX-XI 1989 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Pen. Osa. 5km. N. Pto. [;] Jimenez, 10m, iii-iv. [;] 1991, P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol. Las Alturas, 1500m [;] iii.1992, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Peninsula Osa, Puerto [;] Jimenez, 10m, x-xi.1991 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise trap [;] grassy, disturbed site (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 5km. [;] W. Piedras Blancas, 100m [;] I-1993, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Estac. Biol [;] Los Altures 1500m [;] iv.1992 P. Hanson (TAMU).

Comments.

The brown flagellum, absence of propodeal tubercles above hind coxae, and the dimple-like depression where the notauli meet are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for Geraldine “Jeri” Wright, who, as a student at the University of Wyoming, spent time in Costa Rica collecting parasitic wasps, setting Malaise traps and sorting many specimens of Doryctinae .