Bathyaulax appelatrix ( Cameron 1909 )

Kaartinen, Riikka & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2007, A revision of the parasitic wasp genus Bathyaulax Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Journal of Natural History 41 (1 - 4), pp. 125-212 : 140-141

Bathyaulax appelatrix ( Cameron 1909)

( Figures 2 , 25–27 ) Iphiaulax appelatrix Cameron 1909 Ipobracon apellatrix [!]: Fahringer 1929

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( ZMHB): Iphiaulax appelatrix Cameron 1909 . South Africa, Capland, [no date] Krebs S.

Description

Female: Length of body 13 mm, of fore wing 12 mm, of ovipositor 11 mm.

Antennae broken. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.5:3.1. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.3:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Face and clypeus granulate. Frons depressed, very smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.2:1.0:3.0. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.4:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.6:2.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.6:1.5. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.6. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.7. Shape of vein 1-SR+M almost straight, very weakly wavy. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 2 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: [The type missing fore legs.] Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.1:2.7:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.8 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.6 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with very weak aciculation on posterior margin, and sparsely sublaterally strigated. Second tergite 1.9 times wider than long; strongly medially to sublaterally striated below raised medial triangular area. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; median raised area weakly striated, sublaterally smooth, tapering towards lateral sides of tergite. Tergite four with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, and smooth lateral areas surrounded by similar furrows. Tergites five to eight smooth, tergite five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins.

Orange-brown except for the following which are black: antenna, temples and frons, vertex, face and apex of mandibles. Thin orange-brown zones around eyes, and spots between eyes and ocelli. Wings fairly evenly weakly darkened, with faint hyaline zones in fore wings. Apical quarter of pterostigma yellow-white.

Figures

Figures 2–7. Features of the second and third metasomal tergites of Bathyaulax species. (2) B. appelatrix (3) B. atripennis, (4) B. bicolor, (5) B. delagoaensis, (6) B. fortisulcatus, (7) B. kυisti.

Figures 25–28. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (25)–(27) B. appelatrix, face, fourth metasomal tergite and first metasomal tergite. (28) B. artoi, metasomal tergites two and three (lateral view).