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Body size: 3.5 mm. Color: body entirely dark brown; scape honey yellow without lateral longitudinal brown stripe, flagellum brown with apical 3-5 flagellomeres white; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow, hind femur and tibia yellow on basal half, brown on apical half, hind tarsus brown. Head: vertex transversely costate; frons transversely costate; face granulate-areolate; temple in dorsal view narrow, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space greater than 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 2.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 22 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting at scutellum in triangle rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3 cross carinae; mesopleuron granulate; precoxal sulcus smooth, shorter than mesopleuron; venter granulate; propodeum with basal median areas margined, rugose, basal median carina absent, areola distinctly margined, areolar area rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, granulate anteriorly, with weak apical-lateral tubercle just above hind coxa. Wings: fore wing vein r shorter than vein 3RSa, vein 1cu-a slightly 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 longitudinal costate; anterior transverse groove present, sinuate; posterior transverse groove weakly indicated at least medially; third tergum smooth entirely; 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
- author
- Paul M. Marsh
- author
- Alexander L. Wild
- author
- James B. Whitfield