Heterospilus xinca 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 : 298-300

Heterospilus xinca Marsh sp. n. Figure 203

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma brown, area along notauli and propodeum often lighter brown; metasomal terga light brown to honey yellow, laterally terga are often dark brown; wing veins brown, stigma 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 at least 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-14 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum weakly granu late; prescutellar furrow with 5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; 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 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 as long as 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 #: (blank) [;] Dates: 18. i– 8.ii.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 [;] xinca [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, same data as holotype except: Site #: BH-9-O; Dates: 14. viii– 6.ix.1986, 13. iv– 4.v.1986 and 8. ii– 2.iii.1986 (ESUW). 7 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-12-C and BH-10-C [;] Dates: 8. ii– 2.iii.1986, 22. iii– 13.iv.1986, 4-24.v.1986, 14. viii– 6.ix.1986 and 26. vii– 14.viii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-4-C [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986 and 8-29.xi.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW).

Comments.

The light brown color of the body and the absence of hind wing vein SC+R are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Xinca, an indigenous people of Guatemala.