A revision of the parasitic wasp genus Bathyaulax Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula Author Kaartinen, Riikka Author Quicke, Donald L. J. text Journal of Natural History 2007 2007-02-16 41 1 - 4 125 212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601121221 journal article 10.1080/00222930601121221 1464-5262 4581880 Bathyaulax somaliensis (Szépligeti 1914) ( Figures 15 , 106 ) Goniobracon somaliensis Szépligeti 1914a Iphiaulax somaliensis : Brues 1926 Material examined Holotype : Female ( ZMHB ): Goniobracon somaliensis Szépligeti 1914 . Ethiopia , Woreda , 10.6.1901 , B. v. Erlanger. Description Females: Length of body 12 mm , of fore wing 12 mm , of ovipositor 9 mm . Antennae with 70 flagellomeres (apex broken). Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.6:2.9. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.6. Sculpture on face granulate, on clypeus similar. Frons flat, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.1:1.0:2.7. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.0:1.0. Mesosoma approximately 1.8 times longer than maximally deep. Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.1:3.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.0:1.1. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.4. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:5.8. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly S-curved. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein. Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:2.4:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.6 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:3.2:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.8 times longer than deep. First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with posterior margin strigated. Second tergite 1.8 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area raised and smooth. Third tergite 2.5 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, median and antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergite four similar, but antero-lateral areas more narrow. Tergites five to seven smooth. Figures 106–109. Automontage ș images of Bathyaulax species. (106) B. somaliensis , wings. (107)–(109) B. striolatus , face, metasomal tergite 1 and metasomal tergites 2–3. Orange-brown except for following which are black: apex of mandibles, antennae and vshaped area around stemmaticum. Wings fairly weakly darkened, with hyaline zones in fore wing below pterostigma, basally to veins 1-M and cu-a and around vein r-m. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened with faint hyaline areas around basal, subbasal and marginal cells.