Heterospilus jonmarshi 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 : 241-243

Heterospilus jonmarshi Marsh sp. n. Figure 163

Female.

Body size: 3.0 mm. Color: body medium to dark brown, apical metasomal terga often lighter brown than anterior terga, rarely all terga lighter brown than mesosoma; scape light brown or yellow, usually with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, rarely stripe weak or absent, flagellum entirely brown; wing veins brown, stigma yellow; legs yellow. Head: vertex granulate; frons granulate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view broad but not bulging behind eye, width greater than 1/2 eye height; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21-25 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate and shining, rarely partially smooth; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area, often with median longitudinal rugose groove extending anteriorly on median mesoscutal lobe; scutellum weakly granulate, often smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas small and not margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinct, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or equal to 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 laterally, rugose medially, length slightly less than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-rugose; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present but usually weakly indicated; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor equal to half length of metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, partially printed and hand written) - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-3-O [;] Dates: 2-23.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label (white, printed) - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland, 10 years old [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day; third label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] jonmarshi [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

12 ♀♀, same data as holotype except: Site: H-1-O; Dates: 23. iii– 19.iv.1986, 21. ii– 14.iii.1987, 20.xii.86-10.i.1987, 18. x– 8.xi.1986, 6-27.ix.1986, 26. vii– 14.viii.1986, 14. viii– 6.ix.1986, 14. iv– 4.v.1986 and 31. i– 21.ii.1987 (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-11-O and BH-9-O [;] Dates: 4-24.v.1986, 18. i– 8.ii.1986, 23. iii– 13.iv.1986 and 13. iv– 4.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 4 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: SE-6-C [;] Dates: 16. xi– 7.xii.1985, 8. ii– 2.iii.1986, 26. vii– 14.viii.1986 and 20.xii.86-10.i.1987 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: 7 [;] Dates: 6-27.xi.1986 and 14. viii– 6.ix.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [SE] Bosque San Emilio [;] 50yr old deciduous forest [O] in clearing, fully [;] isolated part of day (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: H-2-C and H-4-C [;] Dates: 29. xi– 20.xii.1986, 31. i– 21.ii.1987 and 4-24.v.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [H] open regenerating [;] woodland, 10 years old [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa Natl. Park [;] 300m, ex. Malaise trap [;] Site #: BH-10-C [;] Dates: 2-23.iii.1986 [;] I.D. Gauld & D. Janzen; second label - [BH] Bosque Humedo [;] mature evergreen dry forest [;] [C] more or less fully [;] shaded as possible (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 18. x– 8.xi.1986; second label - Open regenerating [;] Woodland less than [;] 10 yrs. Old. Sun; third label - H-3-O [;] 18. x– 8.xi.86 (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise, Ian Gauld [;] 10-31.i.1987; second label - Bosque San Emilio [;] 50 yr. Old deciduous [;] Forest [;] Full Shade; third label - SE-6-C [;] 10-31.i.87 (ESUW). 3 ♀♀, C.R.: Guanacaste [;] P.N. Santa Rosa [;] 200m, January 1991 [;] Col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 2 ♀♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste, Bagaces [;] Pque. Ntl. Palo Verde, Sct. P. Verde [;] Cerro, Guayacan, 212m, Malaise [;] 13. x– 11.xi.1999, I. Jimenez [;] L.N. 259350-389600 #54006 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] Santa Rosa National Pk. [;] 300m, Malaise H-2-C4 [;] regenerating woodland [;] <10 yr. old, Ian Gauld [;] 4-24.v.1986, full shade (ESUW). 1 ♀, S.RosaPark. Guan. [;] C. Rica 17 Jan 78 [;] D.H. Janzen [;] Dry Hill (AEIC).

Comments.

The median longitudinal rugose line on the mesoscutum, the short and broad metasomal tergum 1 and the yellow stigma are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for my son, Jon Marsh.