Heterospilus wilkinsoni 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 : 184-185

Heterospilus wilkinsoni Marsh sp. n. Figure 126

Female.

Body size: 4.0 mm. Color: head with vertex light brown, frons, face and eye orbits yellow; scape yellow, flagellum yellow at base to brown apically; mesosoma brown, yellow along notauli; metasoma honey yellow, tergum 1 and apex of tergum 3 light brown; legs yellow; wing veins brown, stigma bicolored brown with yellow apex. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face striate; temple in dorsal view slightly bulging, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; antennae broken. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth above precoxal sulcus, granulate and costate dorsally; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas rugose, distinctly margined, basal median carina present, areola not 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 costate-granulate, length greater than apical width; second tergum costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove distinct; third tergum costate-granulate at base, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH.10.C [;] Dates: 8. ii– 7.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] wilkinsoni [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

This species is distinguished by the bicolored stigma, rugose basal median areas of the propodeum, and the honey yellow metasoma.

Etymology.

Named for the British entomologist, D. S. Wilkinson, who described many braconids in the early 1900s.