Heredius, Marsh, 2002

Silva, Antonielson B., Shimbori, Eduardo M. & Fernandes, and Daniell R. R., 2025, A new species of Heredius (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Doryctinae) from Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, Zoologia (e 24066) 42, pp. 1-6 : 5

Key to species of Heredius

1. Body entirely yellow, ocell-ocular distance about 3.5– 4.0 times diameter of lateral ocellus............................ 2

1’. Body mostly brown or black; ocell-ocular distance 2.0–2.7 times diameter of lateral ocellus..................... 3

2. Body length 4.0 mm, malar space 0.5 times eye height, antenna with 30 flagellomeres, ovipositor as long as body... ........ Heredius flavus Castro, Nunes & Penteado-Dias, 2011

2’. Body length 1.5 mm, malar space 0.3 times eye height, antenna with 14 flagellomeres, ovipositor short, 0.2x the body length ................................................................ Heredius gadelhai Silva, Shimbori & Fernandes sp. nov.

3. Antenna mostly dark brown with basal segments yellow; ovipositor 0.4 times longer than body (0.7 times metasoma); scutellum acinose ....................................... ................. Heredius assu Castro & Penteado-Dias, 2017

3’. Antenna with apical 8–9 segments white; ovipositor nearly as long as body (1.5 times as long as metasoma) ................................... Heredius laselvus Marsh, 2002