Heterospilus saminae 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 : 279-281

Heterospilus saminae Marsh sp. n. Figure 190

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 usually yellow medially, terga 5-7 yellow; scape yellow or light brown with lateral longitudinal dark brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 5-7 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons weakly granulate, occasionally partially smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width equal to 1/2 eye width; malar space slightly greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance slightly greater than 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24-26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli usually smooth, occasionally weakly partially scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in unsculptured area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3-5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose and with 2 scrobiculate grooves dorsally, propodeum with small but distinct tubercle above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a usually beyond vein 1M, occasionally interstitial; hind wing vein SC+R absent, vein M+CU shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, often rugose medially, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight or very slightly sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum entirely granulate except costate transverse groove; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor shorter than metasomal tergum 1.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Alajuela Prov. [;] Area Conservation de Arenal [;] Est. San Ramon, Malaise #3 [;] in veg. on Sendero W.F. [;] 5 June to 15 July 1998 [;] N. Zitani, S. Dadelahi, [;] K. Krenzelok, R. Fenoff; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] saminae [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela [;] R.B. San Ramon [;] 800m, xi-xii.1998 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, [;] 24km W. Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, [;] Feb. 1992 and xii.1991, Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] San Vito, Las Cruces [;] Wilson Botanical Gardens [;] 18-22.iii.1990, 1150m [;] J.S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela [;] 5km W San Ramon [;] 1200m, ii.1997 [;] O.Castro & P.Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Alajuela [;] Est. San Ramon, Light trap [;] UV/F - in vegetation [;] 10:30-11:30 p.m. [;] 24.vi.1998 [;] Dadelahi & Zitani (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] ACO, Golfito, RF Golfo Dulce [;] Est. Agujas, 250-300m [;] 2-22.x.1999, J. Azofeifa [;] L.S. 276750-526550 #53490 [;] Amarilla (ESUW).

Comments.

The unsculptured area where the notauli meet, the bicolored metasomal terga and the propodeal sculpture are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for Samin Dadelahi, former student at the University of Wyoming who collected and sorted many braconids from Costa Rica.