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Image of Heterospilus wesmaeli Marsh
Unresolved name

Heterospilus wesmaeli Marsh

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Body size: 3.5–4.0 mm. Color: head yellow; scape yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown, light brown or yellow along notauli, propleuron and precoxal sulcus; metasomal tergum 1 dark brown, tergum 2 brown medially and laterally with yellow lines medio-laterally, sometimes yellow laterally, terga 3–4 brown, sometimes yellow laterally, terga 5–7 yellow or honey yellow; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, hind tibia yellow with extreme base (knee) dark brown and apical half light brown, tarsus brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face smooth or weakly granulate; temple in dorsal view narrow, less than 1/2 eye width; malar space equal to eye height; ocell-ocular distance twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 26–28 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in wide rectangular rugose area; scutellum weakly granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3–5 cross carinae; mesopleuron weakly granulate, partially nearly smooth; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina present, areola not 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 equal to or longer than vein 1M. Metasoma: first tergum longitudinally costate-rugose, apical width about 3/4 length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove absent; third tergum costate at base, smooth at apex; terga 4–7 smooth; ovipositor as long as 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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