Heterospilus monteverde 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 : 121-122

Heterospilus monteverde Marsh sp. n. Figure 81

Female.

Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: head brown; scape honey yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-8 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown, mesoscutal lobes honey yellow anteriorly, propleuron and venter honey yellow; metasomal terga 1-4 dark brown, tergum slightly lighter, tergum 5 brown basally, yellow apically, terga 6-7 yellow basally, light brown apically; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, hind femur yellow on basal 1/4, brown on apical 3/4. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view narrow, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 24-26 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 1 median distinct cross carina plus 2 weaker carinae on each side; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola 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-granulate; second tergum costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum entirely smooth; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA: [;] Puntarenas [;] Monteverde, [;] 1400m, [;] 26-28.iii.1991, yellow [;] pan, Col. Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] monteverde [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratypes.

Known only from the holotype.

Comments.

The granulate mesopleuron, slightly sinuate anterior transverse groove on metasomal tergum 2 and the weak or absent posterior transverse groove of metasomal tergum 3.

Etymology.

The specific name is from the type locality, Monteverde in Puntarenas Province.