Heterospilus catorce 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 : 328-329

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.347.6002

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A3874FFE-0219-46B4-869B-1FD40271AE6D

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Heterospilus catorce Marsh
status

sp. n.

Heterospilus catorce Marsh sp. n. Figure 220

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons dark brown, face honey yellow; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1 and 2 dark brown, remainder of terga dark brown basally, dark yellow apically; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space about equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli weakly scrobiculate anteriorly, smooth posteriorly, meeting posteriorly in rectangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, smooth, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, smooth basally. 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, narrow, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, very slightly sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, weakly granulate apically; terga 4-7 weakly granulate basally, nearly smooth apically; ovipositor about 3/4 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise trap, Ian Gauld [;] 26. vii– 14.viii 1986; second label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Bosque San Emelio [;] 50yr. old deciduous [;] forest, [;] Full Shade; third label (white, printed) - SE-8-C [;] 26. vii– 14.viii.86; fourth label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] catorce [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The smooth mesoscutum, rectangular costate area where notauli meet, the narrow metasomal tergum 2 and the white annulus on the flagellum are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Heterospilus