Heterospilus veintidos 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 : 422-423

Heterospilus veintidos Marsh sp. n. Figure 292

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body dark brown, metasomal tergum 2 somewhat lighter brown, terga 6 yellow; scape honey yellow with darker lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical white annulus, apical 3-5 flagellomeres brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs mostly yellow, coxae and trochanters lighter, hind femur with brown area laterally on apical half. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth and polished; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular 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, width about 4 times length; anterior transverse groove present, slightly sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate on basal ⅓, smooth on apical ⅔; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor half as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] R.F. Golfo Dulce, 3km. [;] S.W. Rincon, 10m [;] I.1992, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] veintidos [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

3 ♀♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 5, 12 14 Sep 77 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark, Guan. [;] C. Rica 8 Dec., 76 [;] D. H. Janzen [;] Riparian (AEIC).

Comments.

The short metasomal tergum 1, the sinuate anterior transverse groove on tergum 2, the smooth and polished mesoscutum and the flagellum with apical white annulus are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is an arbitrary combination of letters.