Heterospilus cacaoensis 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 : 45-46

Heterospilus cacaoensis Marsh sp. n. Figure 24

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head dark brown, eye orbits usually and face partially marked with honey yellow; scape brown with lateral longitudinal dark brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 8-10 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown, propleuron and venter usually lighter brown; metasoma dark brown, terga 5-7 yellow; wing veins brown, stigma brown with yellow at extreme apex; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face striate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 30-31 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in with 2 converging carinae; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 cross carina; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, short, areola distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas rugose apically, granulate basally, small but distinct tubercle on propodeum just above hind coxa. 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 greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to 1/2 length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Est. Cacao, 1000-1150m [;] ix.1996, I. Villegas, Malaise [;] L.N. 323150-375500 #47559; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] cacaoensis [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

2 ♀♀, same data as holotype with dates of vii.1996, viii.1996 (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA: Puntar [;] Golfo Dulce 24km W [;] Piedras Blancas [;] 200m, vii-ix.1990 [;] Col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Cartago [;] Turrialba, CATE [;] 14-15 March 1990 [;] 700m, J.S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] W. side Volcan Orosi [;] Estac. Maritza, 600m; second label - GNP Biodiversity Survey [;] 1989, Malaise trap [;] L-N-326900-373000 #6834 (ESUW).

Comments.

The single median cross carina in the prescutellar furrow, the white apical flagellomeres and the tubercles on the propodeum just above the hind coxa are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the locality where the holotype was collected, Cacao Station in Guanacaste Province.