Heterospilus leenderti

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ichneumonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Ichneumonoidea

Familia: Braconidae
Subfamilia: Doryctinae
Tribus: Heterospilini
Genus: Heterospilus
Species: Heterospilus leenderti

Name

• Heterospilus leenderti Marsh, 2013: 268, fig. 167

Holotype: ESUW, ♀, III-V 1989, Hanson & Gauld.

Type locality: COSTA RICA: Puntarenas, Rd. to Rincon, 10km W. of Pan-Amer. Hwy, 100m.

Etymology: Named for Leendert van der Ent, whose doctoral dissertation at the University of Wyoming on biodiversity of parasitic wasps in Costa Rica included a study on altitudinal diversity of Costa Rican Heterospilus with respect to antennal color.

References

• Marsh, P.M., Wild, A.L. & Whitfield, J.B. 2013. The Doryctinae (Braconidae) of Costa Rica: genera and species of the tribe Heterospilini. ZooKeys 347: 1–474. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.347.6002 Reference page.  [original description: p. 268, fig. 167]