Heterospilus mixtec 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 : 119-121

Heterospilus mixtec Marsh sp. n. Figure 80

Female.

Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head with vertex and frons brown, face and eye orbits lighter; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe; flagellum brown with apical 5-6 flagellomeres white except apical flagellomere brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1-3 dark brown, remainder of terga slightly lighter; wing veins brown, stigma brown with yellow at base; legs yellow. Head: vertex weakly striate behind ocelli, smooth near eyes; frons weakly striate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times or greater than diameter of lateral ocellus; 20 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median ca rina present, short, areola usually not distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly. 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, apical width about equal to length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - Costa Rica, Heredia [;] 3km. S. Puerto Viejo [;] OTS-La Selva, 100m [;] IV-V-1993, P. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] mixtec [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

1 ♀, COSTA RICA-Heredia Prov. [;] La Selva Biological Station [;] 10°26'N, 84°01'W, 100m [;] Malaise trap 05, #296 [;] 15.xii.1993 [;] Project ALAS (m.05.296) (ESUW). 1 ♀, COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Chilamate, 75m [;] VII-VIII/1989 [;] col. Paul Hanson (ESUW). 1 ♀, top label - COSTA RICA, Heredia [;] Est. Biol. La Selva, 50- [;] 150m, 10°26'N, 84°01'W [;] Jun 1993 INBio-OET; second label - 14 Juno 1993 [;] Bosque secundario [;] M/13/135 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Guanacaste [;] P.N. Guanacaste [;] below Pitilia, 500m [;] 7-8.iii.1990, J. S. Noyes (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon, Central [;] R.B. Hitoy Cerere, Est. Hitoy [;] Cerere, Send. Toma de Agua [;] 100-140m, Malaise trap [;] 11. x– 11.xi.1992, F. Umana [;] L.N.184600-643400 #54013 (ESUW). 1 ♀, Costa Rica, Limon [;] Sector Cocori, 100m [;] 30km N Cariari, i.1995 [;] E. Rojas, Malaise #4526 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW).

Comments.

The smaller eyes and ocelli and the white apical flagellomeres are distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the Mixtec, an indigenous people of Mexico.