Small hymenopteran insects , length from 3.0 to 3.5 mm. Head and legs are yellow. Flagellum brown (consists of 25 segments). The scapus is yellow, without a lateral brown strip. Mesosome two-tone: scutellum , mesoscutum and mesopleuron dark brown; pronotum , propleron, propodeum and bottom yellow. Head mostly smooth (forehead and vertex; face slightly furrowed). Scutum , mesoscutum granular; mesopleuron is smooth. The distance between the compound eye and the simple eye (ocellium) is equal to two diameters of the lateral simple eye. Malar space is approximately equal to 0.25 eye height. First abdominal tergite longitudinally furrowed; its apical width is equal to the length of the tergite. 2nd tergite longitudinally furrowed. The 4-7th tergites of the abdomen are smooth. The ovipositor is equal in length to the length of the first and second tergites of the metasome. Vein r of fore wing shorter than vein 3RSa. In the front wing, a radio-medial vein is developed. Fore tibia with single row of short spines along anterior margin. On the hind coxae of the legs there is a distinct anteroventral basal protrusion; the vertex of the head on the side of the eye is not sharp angular. Presumably, like other species of the genus Heterospilus , parasitize on beetles or butterflies. The species was first described in 2013 by the American hymenopterologist Paul Marsh ( Paul M. Marsh ; , Kansas , USA ) with a group of American fellow entomologists ( Wild Alexander L. , Whitfield James B .; University of Illinois at Urban- Champaign , Erbana , Illinois , USA) [1] .
The species Heterospilus aphrodite was named after the ancient Greek goddess of beauty and love Aphrodite . It differs from related species in a two-tone body, a brown flagellum, large eyes and a shortened ovipositor [1] .