Heterospilus washingtoni 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 : 427-428

Heterospilus washingtoni Marsh sp. n. Figures 296, 297

Female.

Body size: 4.0-5.0 mm. Color: body entirely yellow; scape brown; flagellum brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face rugose, at least medially; temple in dorsal view narrow, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 33-37 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in costate-rugose rectangular area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina absent, areola weakly margined or 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 present, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, distinct transverse carina medially at base, length equal to 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 longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Canopy fogging 19 [;] 8.x.1994 [;] Project ALAS(FVK19); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] washingtoni [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype except: Canopy fogging 20; date of 9.x.1994 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 29. xi– 20.xii 1996 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 5 Nov 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The large yellow body, smooth mesosoma, single cross carina in prescutellar furrow and the long ovipositor are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the father of the United States and our first president, George Washington.