Heterospilus empalmensis 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 : 349-351

Heterospilus empalmensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 237

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: head brown; scape honey yellow; flagellum brown, basal flagellomeres often honey yellow; mesosoma with lateral mesoscutal lobes honey yellow, medial lobes brown, pronotum, mesopleuron, and propodeum dark brown, lower portion of mesopleuron along precoxal sulcus often honey yellow; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs honey yellow; metasomal terga 1 and 2 brown, remainder of terga honey yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face smooth; temple in dorsal view broad, slightly bulging behind eye, width greater than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height, nearly ⅔ eye height; ocell-ocular distance nearly 5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 19-22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes weakly granulate or smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in triangular costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate or smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, weakly granulate or smooth, basal median carina present, areola not margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa and nearly as long as stigma width, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M; hind wing vein SC+R present, straight, vein M+CU equal to vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate, length greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove weak or absent; posterior transverse groove weak or absent; third tergum smooth entirely; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to half length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 20Km. S. Empalme [;] 2800m, vii-viii 1989 [;] Paul Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] empalmensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, same data as holotype (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] 16Km S. Empalme [;] 2600m, i-ii 1989 [;] P. Hanson & I. Gauld [sic] (ESUW). 5 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] 19km. S. 3km. W. Empalme [;] 2600m, IV-VII.1992 [;] P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose, Cerro Muerte [;] 20km S Empalme, 2800m [;] xi 88-I 1989, P. Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte, 19km [;] S3km W Empalme, 2600m [;] ix.1992 and x-xii.1993, P. Hanson, Malaise (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: San Jose [;] Cerro de la Muerte, 2800m [;] 6km. N. San Gerrado [;] vi.1992, P Hanson coll. (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: San Jose [;] P.N. Braulio Carillo [;] 9.5km E tunnel, 1000m [;] vii-ix 1989, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-1-O [;] Dates: 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland <10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Puntarenas, ACLAC [;] PILA, Est. Altamira, 2279m [;] Cerro Quemado, R. Villalobos [;] 23. iv– 22.vi.1999, Malaise trap [;] L.S. 336200-575560 #52790 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Cartago [;] 4km NE Cañon [;] Genesis II, 2350m [;] x.1996, P. Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Cartago [;] Cerro de la Muerte [;] Villa Mills, 3000m [;] vii-viii 1989, Hanson (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, COSTA RICA, SanJosé [;] Cerro Muerte, 20Km S [;] Empalme, 2800m [;] I-II/1989, P. Hanson (MICR). 6 ♀♀, COSTA RICA, Cartago- [;] San Jose, 20km SE [;] Empalme, 2800m [;] VIII to XI/ 1988, Col. Hanson (MICR).

Comments.

The long malar space, bicolored mesosoma, single cross carina in the prescutellar furrow and the narrow stigma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the locality of Empalme near where many of the type series were collected.