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Heterospilus

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Heterospilus is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are at least 130 described species in Heterospilus.[1][2][3][4]

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References

  1. ^ "Browse Heterospilus". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  2. ^ "Heterospilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  3. ^ "Heterospilus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
  4. ^ "Heterospilus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
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Heterospilus: Brief Summary

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Heterospilus is a genus of braconid wasps in the family Braconidae. There are at least 130 described species in Heterospilus.

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Description

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Body size: 3.5–4.0 mm. Color: head with vertex dark brown, face and eye orbits honey yellow; scape yellow without lateral brown stripe; flagellum brown; mesosoma dark brown; metasoma dark brown, apical terga lighter brown; wing veins including stigma brown; legs yellow. Head: vertex smooth; frons smooth; face rugose; temple in dorsal view narrow, sloping behind eye, width less than 1/2 eye width; malar space about equal to 1/4 eye height; ocell-ocular distance 1.5 times diameter of lateral ocellus; 29–31 flagellomeres. Mesosoma: mesoscutal lobes granulate; notauli scrobiculate, meeting posteriorly in rectangular rugose area; scutellum smooth; prescutellar furrow with 3–5 cross carinae; mesopleuron weakly granulate, rarely smooth above precoxal sulcus; precoxal sulcus weakly scrobiculate, shorter than mesopleuron; venter weakly granulate or partially smooth; propodeum with basal median areas margined, granulate, basal median carina absent, areola not margined, areolar area areolate-rugose, lateral areas rugose posteriorly, smooth anteriorly. Wings: fore wing vein r slightly shorter or equal to 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-rugose, length equal to or slightly greater than apical width; second tergum longitudinally costate-granulate; anterior transverse groove present, straight; posterior transverse groove present; third tergum costate basally, smooth apically; terga 4–7 smooth; ovipositor longer than metasoma.
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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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Distribution

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The genus occurs worldwide but the preponderance of species are found in the Western Hemisphere.
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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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