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Image of Heterospilus szepligetii Marsh
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Heterospilus szepligetii Marsh

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Body size: 2.5 mm. Color: head brown; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3–5 flagellomeres white; mesosoma dark brown; metasomal terga 1–4 dark brown, tergum 2 lighter brown, tergum 5 brown with yellow apical edge, terga 6–7 yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex transversely striate; frons transversely striate; face smooth; temple in dorsal view somewhat narrow, width slightly less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than eye height; ocell-ocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 21 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli weakly scrobiculate or smooth, meeting at scutellum in triangular costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas entirely rugose. 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 less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate, greatest width about 4 times median length; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated or absent; third tergum costate at base, smooth apically; terga 4–7 smooth; ovipositor as long as metasoma.
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Paul M. Marsh, Alexander L. Wild, James B. Whitfield
bibliographic citation
Marsh P, Wild A, Whitfield J (2013) The Doryctinae (Braconidae) of Costa Rica: genera and species of the tribe Heterospilini ZooKeys 347: 1–474
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Paul M. Marsh
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Alexander L. Wild
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James B. Whitfield
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