Heterospilus boharti 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 : 38-39

Heterospilus boharti Marsh sp. n. Figures 18, 19

Female.

Body size: 3.5-4.0 mm. Color: head dark brown, face sometimes lighter brown than vertex; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 5-8 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga dark brown, apical terga often lighter brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, hind femur yellow on basal half, brown on apical half. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face rugose or rugose-areolate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width 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; 25-27 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, extending to posterior edge of mesopleuron by costate line; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate-rugose, basal median carina absent, 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-rugose; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior trans verse groove present, slightly sinuate; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4-7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.

Holotype female.

Top label (white, printed) - COSTA RICA, Puntar. [;] Golfo Dulce, 3Km S [;] Rincon, 10m [;] III-V/1989, Hanson; second label (red, partially printed and hand written) - HOLOTYPE [;] Heterospilus [;] boharti [;] P. Marsh. Deposited in ESUW.

Paratype.

1 ♀, Costa Rica: Limon [;] Sector Cocori, 100m [;] 30km N Cariari, i.1995 [;] E. Rojas, Malaise, #4526 [;] L.N. 286000-567500 (ESUW).

Comments.

The rugose and dull face is distinctive for this species.

Etymology.

Named for the late Richard M. Bohart, who guided me as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis.