Heterospilus cinco 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 : 332

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52232D18-DD78-4A84-882C-ACA428B4A9D2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D0A64C11-6E02-40D6-A742-8D9E0FE08349

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:D0A64C11-6E02-40D6-A742-8D9E0FE08349

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scientific name

Heterospilus cinco Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus cinco Marsh sp. n. Figure 223

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga slightly lighter; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical white annulus but with apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow spot at base; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, width slightly less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron weakly granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present but very short, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, weakly granulate basally. 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, length slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum smooth except for costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor 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-C-6 [;] Dates: 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] cinco [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The flagellum with a white apical annulus, the lateral brown stripe on the scape and the bicolored stigma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus