Heterospilus hachaensis 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 : 352-353

Heterospilus hachaensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 239

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: body dark brown or black; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown, basal flagellomeres often lighter; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs honey yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons weakly transversely striate; face weakly striate or smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, somewhat bulging behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 27-34 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate or partially smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate or partially smooth; propodeum with basal median areas 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 present, 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 nearly completely costate, smooth at extreme posterior border; terga 4-5 costate at base, smooth at apex, tergum 6 granulate at base, smooth at apex; ovipositor as long as metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] Guanacaste Prov. [;] Cerro el Hacha [;] NW Volcan Orosi [;] 300m, 1988; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] hachaensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

5 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ESUW).

Comments.

The yellow stigma, costate metasomal terga 4-5 and dark brown or black body are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the type locality of Cerro el Hacha in Guanacaste Province.