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 fortisulcatus ( Strand 1912 ) ( Figures 6 , 54 ) Iphiaulax fortisulcatus Strand 1912 Iphiaulacidea (?) fortisulcatus Fahringer 1926 Material examined Holotype : Male ( ZMHB ): Iphiaulax fortisulcatus Strand 1912 , SYRIA ?, [no date] Ehrnbg. Additional specimens examined Kenya : 1 female , Tsavo East NP . 15.8.1976 , D. Quicke ( BMNH ) . Description Male: Length of body 14 mm , of fore wing 11 mm . Antennae with 85 flagellomeres, but apex broken. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:2.6:2.7. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.5:3.0:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.7. Sculpture on face granulate to pustulate, on clypeus similar. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.2:1.0:2.4. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.7:1.0. Mesosoma approximately 1.6 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:rm51.0:1.7:1.1. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:3.8. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:7.6. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly S-shaped. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein. Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:2.4:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.5 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.7:3.4:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.4 times longer than deep. First metasomal tergite 1.3 times longer than wide; raised median area longitudinally depressed and whole area strongly strigated. Second tergite 2.2 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area not raised or conspicuous. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area longitudinally strigose to reticulate rugose. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergites four and five similar. Tergites six and seven smooth. Figures 52–56. Automontage ș images of Bathyaulax species. (52, 53) B. flaυipera , head and mesosoma (lateral view) and metasomal tergites 2–3. (54) B. fortisulcatus , wing. (55, 56) B. foυeiυentris , wing and metasomal tergites 2–3. Orange-brown except for apex of mandibles which are black. Wings fairly evenly weakly darkened, with two hyaline zones in fore wing below pterostigma and basally to veins 1-M and cu-a. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened with two hyaline areas around vein 1-M and costal and marginal cells.