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Image of Heterospilus vittatus Marsh
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Heterospilus vittatus Marsh

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Body size: 4.5 mm. Color: head with vertex brown, frons, face, malar space and eye orbits honey yellow; scape honey yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma honey yellow with brown along notauli, along pronotal groove, on scutellum and metascutum, on propodeal areola, dorsally on mesopleuron and apical-laterally on propodeum; metasoma honey yellow, terga 1 and 2 brown medially, terga 3–6 brown basally; legs yellow; wing veins including stigma brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons costate; face granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 33–37 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangular rugose area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carina; 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 granulate. 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 weakly indicated; third tergum entirely granulate; terga 4–7 granulate; ovipositor longer than metasoma.
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Paul M. Marsh, Alexander L. Wild, James B. Whitfield
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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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