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
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601121221
journal article
10.1080/00222930601121221
1464-5262
4581880
Bathyaulax atripennis
(Szépligeti 1914)
(
Figures 3
,
30, 31
)
Goniobracon atripennis
Szépligeti 1914a
Iphiaulax atripennis
:
Brues 1926
Material examined
Holotype
: Female (
ZMHB
):
Goniobracon atripennis
Szépligeti 1914a
.
Uganda
,
Ukereve
, [no date]
Conrads, S.V.
Description
Female: Length of body
20 mm
, of fore wing
18 mm
, of ovipositor
23 mm
.
Antennae with 110 flagellomeres, but apex of antenna broken. Height of clypeus:intertentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.9:3.4. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.9. Face punctuated with hairs. Clypeus rugulose to papillate, with hairs. Frons depressed, very smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.5:1.0:3.6. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.5:1.0.
Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.
Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.3:3.8. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.0:1.4. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.3. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.3. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.
Legs: length of fore femur:tibia:basitarsus52.2:2.6:1. Fore basitarsus 3.6 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus52.0:2.9:1.0. Hind basitarsus 5.0 times longer than deep.
First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with weak anterior depression and strong ridges on posterior margin. Second tergite 1.8 times wider than long; strongly medially to submedially striated posterior to raised triangular area. Triangular area not smooth, but very faintly strigose. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; strongly striated, only smooth areas antero-laterally. Sculpture on tergites three and four similar. Tergite five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins. Tergites six to eight smooth.
Orange-brown except for the following which are black: antenna, face, temples, frons, vertex and apex of mandibles and ovipositor sheaths. Wings dark brown, with a weak and narrow hyaline zone in fore wing. Basal two thirds of pterostigma whitish-yellow.