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Image of Heterospilus barbalhoae Marsh
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Heterospilus barbalhoae Marsh

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Body size: 2.0–2.5 mm. Color: head dark brown, face usually lighter brown; scape yellow with lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with white annulus apically, apical 2–5 flagellomeres brown; mesosoma and metasoma dark brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex granular; frons granular; face granular; temple in dorsal view narrow but not distinctly sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance about twice diameter of lateral ocellus; 20–22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in small triangular rugose or costate area; scutellum granulate; prescutellar furrow with 3–5 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas distinct but usually not distinctly margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not distinctly margined, areolar area areolate-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, often rugose medially, apical width equal to or slightly less than length; second tergum longitudinally costate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, granulate apically; terga 4-7 granulate; ovipositor shorter than or often equal to length of metasomal tergum 1.
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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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