Heterospilus trece 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 : 414-415

Heterospilus trece Marsh sp. n. Figure 286

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: body dark brown, apical metasomal terga often lighter brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical 10-12 flagellomeres white, apical one sometimes dark; wing veins including stigma brown; legs bicolored brown and yellow, hind femur yellow on basal half, brown on apical half. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eyes, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.0-2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 26-31 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 distinct median cross carina and, rarely, weaker carinae on each side; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, often very short, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, smooth basally, propodeum with distinct tubercle above hind coxa. 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 greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate, raised smooth area medially at base; anterior transverse groove present or rarely weak or absent, usually straight, rarely slightly sinuate; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] P.N. Corcovado, Est. [;] Sirena, 50m [;] IV-VIII 1989; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] trece [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Rd, to Rincon, 24km W. [;] Pan-Amer. Hwy, 200m [;] III-V 1989, Hanson & Gauld (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: Puntarenas [;] Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce [;] 3km SW of Rincon, 10m [;] November 1992 and July 1991, P. Hanson [;] primary forest, Malaise trap (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-O-5 [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-12-C [;] Dates: 18. x– 8.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise trap, Ian Gauld [;] 27. ix– 18.x.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr Old deciduous [;] forest. Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 27. ix– 18.x.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1150m [;] ix.1996, I. Villegas, Malaise [;] L.N. 323150-375500 #47559 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela Prov. [;] Area Conservation de Arena [;] Est. San Ramon, Malaise #3 [;] in veg. on Sendero W.F. [;] 5 June to 15 July 1998 [;] N. Zitani, S. Dadelahi [;] K. Krenzelok, R. Fenoff (ESUW). 1 ♀, Sirena, Osa Pen. [;] VII. 77 Cos. Rica [;] D. H. Janzen (AEIC).

Comments.

The smooth mesoscutum and mesopleuron, the white annulus at apex of flagellum, the tubercle on the propodeum just above the hind coxa and the distinct median basal carina of the propodeum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.