Notiospathius bicolor Marsh, 2002

Rodriguez-Jimenez, Andrea & Sarmiento, Carlos E., 2016, Taxonomic synopsis of Notiospathius Matthews & Marsh, 1973 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Colombia, Zootaxa 4132 (2), pp. 151-206 : 172-173

Notiospathius bicolor Marsh, 2002 .

Notiospathius bicolor Marsh, 2002: 143 .

Variation with respect to holotype. Females. Body length: 3.75–6.65 mm. Color. Head mainly black, or browndark brown. Eye orbits honey-honey yellow, or brown. Malar space brown-honey yellow, or brown-dark brown. Periocellar area black. Scape brown with a wide longitudinal dark brown stripe. Pedicel brown with a wide longitudinal dark brown stripe. Flagellum with apically yellow annulus composed of 14 flagellomeres. Flagellomeres before annuli with the following color pattern from base: brown-honey-brown-black. Venter of mesosoma black. Pronotum black-brown. Propodeum black. First tergum black. Second tergum black, or brown. Third tergum brown basomedially and apically with a transversal honey stripe, or black basomedially and dark brown apically with a transversal brown stripe. Fourth tergum brown basomedially and apically with a transversal honey stripe, or dark brown basomedially and apically with a transversal brown stripe. Fifth tergum brown basomedially and apically with a transversal honey stripe, or brown to dark brown. Sixth tergum dark brown to brown, or brown. Remaining terga brown except the last one, which is yellow. Fore and middle femur brown to dark brown. Fore and middle tibia brown-honey, or dark brown, honey apically. Hind coxa black-dark brown with honey yellow apically, or black with honey yellow apically. Hind trochanter dark brown-honey. Hind trochantellus dark brown-black. Hind femur black, or dark brown. Hind tibia brown, honey at apex or black, honey apically. Hind tarsi honey-honey yellow, or brown-honey. Veins mainly brown-dark brown. Tegula dark brown-yellow, or black-honey. Stigma yellow-dark brown.

Head. Head 0.70–0.80 x higher than wide. Face strongly rugose. Face minimum width/maximum width ratio 0.86–0.88. Frons strongly rugose. Vertex porcate-weakly rugose. Eye 1.23–1.26 x higher than wide. Malar space 0.29–0.44 x eye height in lateral view. Temple/eye length ratio in dorsal view 0.46–0.48. Temple swollen behind eye. Gena-temple area smooth- weakly porcate, or smooth. Scape 0.69 x first flagellomere length. Flagellomeres 28–34.

Mesosoma. Pronotum porcate laterally and weakly rugose ventrally. Pronotal groove laterally weakly scrobiculate-smooth, or scrobiculate-smooth. Propleuron with scrobiculate area, porcate-smooth. Mesoscutal lobes strongly rugose-weakly rugose, or median lobe weakly rugose and lateral lobes coriaceous medially, costate-rugose along lateral edges. Notauli strongly rugose. Mesoscutum medially costate-weakly rugose, or strongly rugose.

Subalar groove distinct and porcate-smooth, or porcate. Precoxal sulcus length 0.84 mesopleuron length, or 0.83 x mesopleuron length. Mesopleuron porcate dorsally, porcate-rugose medially, and smooth ventrally. Venter of mesosoma smooth-weakly rugose with a few area rugose.

Wings: fore wing. 2RS/2M ratio 0.40–0.43. Vein m-cu meeting vein RS+Ma before vein 2RS. Vein (RS+M)b indistinct, or distinct. Vein (RS+M)b/2RS ratio 0.01–0.09. Vein r 0.20 length of vein 3 RSa. Vein 1cu-a slightly postfurcal to vein 1M, or postfurcal to vein 1M. Hind wing. Vein M+CU/1M ratio 0.34. Vein m-cu nebulous, or tubular. Vein cu-a 0.04–0.07 length of 1M. Vein r-m/1M ratio 0.16–0.26.

Legs. Hind coxa dorsally porcate. Ventral part of hind coxa weakly costate-costate, or weakly rugose-rugose. Hind femur in dorsal view smooth.

Metasoma. Basal sternal plate length/first tergum length ratio 0.65–0.67. First tergum 2.88–3.38 x longer than apical width. Suture between second and third tergum strong. Suture between second and third tergum sinuate. Ovipositor 4.00–6.00 mm long. Ovipositor 1.51–1.60 x length of metasoma. Ovipositor 3.81 x length of first tergum.

Distribution. Costa Rica, Colombia.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype female examined, UWIM. Females (IAvH): one female, Colombia, Cauca, PNN Gorgona, El Helechal, 2º58’N 78º11’W, 30m, Malaise, 13/04/2001, 07/05/2001, T. Helmer Leg. M.1651 IAvH-E 114136; one female, Colombia, Cauca PNN Gorgona, El Helechal, 2º58'N 78º11'W, 30m, malaise, 13.iv– 07.v.2001, 30, T. Helmer Leg. M.1651, IAvH-E 114135.