Heterospilus fonsecai 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 : 70-72

Heterospilus fonsecai Marsh sp. n. Figure 44

Female.

Body size: 4.0 mm. Color: head dark brown, face honey yellow; scape honey yellow, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, terga 5-7 lighter brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate or entirely smooth, at least smooth near occipital carina; frons striate; face striate; temple smooth; temple in dorsal view less than 1/2 eye width, slightly bulging; malar space about 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 26-28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting before prescutellar furrow in triangular longitudinally costate area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, about 1/2 length of mesopleuron; venter smooth; propodeum with basal median areas distinctly margined, basal median areas smooth, basal median carina short but distinct, areola weakly margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas areolate-rugose with small smooth area anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r about 1/2 length of vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a beyond vein 1M by about its own length; hind wing vein SC+R present, vein M+CU slightly shorter than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum length about equal to apical width, longitudinally costate, granulate between costae; second tergum apical width less than 3 times median length, longitudinally costate, granulate between costae; anterior and posterior transverse grooves distinct; third tergum longitudinally costate at basal half, smooth on apical half; terga 4-7 smooth except costate at extreme base; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica: Puntarenas [;] Est. Sirena (Parte Alta) [;] Send. Rio Claro, 1-100m [;] ix-xii.1991, G. Fonseca [;] L.S. 270500-508300 [;] #7453, Malaise trap; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] fonsecai [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, Costa Rica - Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W 100m [;] Canopy fogging 32 [;] 3.xi.1994 [;] Project ALAS(FVK32) (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label -COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m. 10°26'N, 81°01'W [;] Feb 1994, INBio-OET; second label - 1 Febrero 1994 [;] Bosque secundario [;] M/02/333 (ESUW).

Comments.

This species is distinct by its smooth mesoscutum and yellow stigma.

Etymology.

This species is named after the collector of the holotype, G. Fonseca.