Heterospilus heredius 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 : 91-92

Heterospilus heredius Marsh sp. n. Figure 59

Female.

Body size: 3.0-3.5 mm. Color: head light brown, often with vertex and frons darker brown; scape light brown, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown, occasionally with lighter spots laterally or along notauli; metasomal terga dark brown, apical terga slightly lighter brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons weakly transversely striate; face distinctly rugose; temple in dorsal view broad, not sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly 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, apical width equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor length equal to length of terga 1+2.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 14, #260 [;] 1.xi.1993 [;] Project ALAS(M.14.260); second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] heredius [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 01, #334 [;] 15.ii.1994 [;] Project ALAS(M.01.334) (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, top label - Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Oct 1993, INBio-OET; second label - 4 Octubre 1993 [;] Bosque secundario [;] M/14/232; third label - INBio bar code (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the coarsely rugose face.

Etymology.

Named after the Province of Heredia where the type series was collected.