Heterospilus braeti 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 : 212-213

Heterospilus braeti Marsh sp. n. Figure 143

Female.

Body size: 2.0-2.5 mm. Color: head and mesosoma dark brown, metasoma terga mostly honey yellow or brown, usually dark brown laterally, terga 4-7 often darker than anterior terga; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins brown, stigma usually light brown, often yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance greater than 2.5 times diameter of later ocellus; 16-19 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate or partially smooth, meeting at scutellum in small triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas small and not margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola 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 absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length equal to apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, weakly granulate apically; terga 4-7 weakly granulate; ovipositor equal to length of metasomal terga 1 and 2 combined.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: 11 [;] Dates: 13. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] braeti [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, same data as holotype with additional dates of 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 and 28.xii.85-18.i.1986 (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: 3 and blank [;] Dates: 10-31.i.1987 and 14. viii– 6.ix.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-6-C and 6 [;] Dates: 28.xii.85-18.i.1986, 2-23.iii.1986 and 8. ii– 2.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: all blank [;] Dates: 28.xii.85-18.i.1986, 2-23.iii.1986 and 31. i– 21.ii.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-0-C and 10 [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986 and 8-29.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 Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-2-C and 10 [;] Dates: 29. xi– 20.xii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [;] [H] open regenerating woodland <10 years old [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Santa [;] Rosa Nat’l Park, Bosque San [;] Emilio, trap #5 in clearing, 300m [;] XI/18-29/1986, I. Gauld; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.i.1987; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50 yr. Old deciduous [;] Forest [;] Full Shade; third label - SE-8-C [;] 10-31.i.87 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 24. v– 14.vi.1986; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50 yr. Old deciduous [;] Forest [;] Sun; third label - SE-7-O [;] 24. v– 14.vi.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 14.vi.1986; second label - Bosque Humedo [;] mature dry forest [;] high proportion [;] evergreen species [;] Sun.; third label - BH-11-O [;] 14.Vi.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 24km. W. [;] Piedras Blancas, 200m [;] VI-1991, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Peninsula Osa, Puerto [;] Jimenez, 10m, x–xi.1991 [;] P. Hanson, Malaise trap [;] grassy, disturbed site (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 3km. SW. Rincon, 10m. [;] ii.1992, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: [;] San Jose [;] Ciudad Colon [;] 800m, iii-iv 1990 [;] Col. Luis Fournier (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Alajuela [;] Inst.Tec.SantaClara [;] 150m, 24/III/1989 [;] col. Hanson & Godoy (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, San Jose [;] San Antonio de Escazu [;] 1300m, VI/1988 [;] Col. W. Eberhard (MICR).

Comments.

The short antennae, small body size and honey yellow metasoma contrasting with the dark brown mesosoma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my colleague and fellow braconidologist, Yves Braet.