Bathyaulax monteiroii ( 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 : 183

Bathyaulax monteiroii ( Cameron 1909)

( Figures 9 , 84, 86 ) Iphiaulax monteiroii Cameron 1909

Material examined

Holotype: Male ( ZMHB): Iphiaulax monteiroii Cameron 1909 . Mozambique, Delagoabai [no date], R. Monteiro.

Additional specimens examined

Angola: 1 female, [no date or locality] ( BMNH) .

Description

Male: Length of body 9 mm, of fore wing 12 mm.

Antennae with 97 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere acuminate, 2.2 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:2.6:2.0. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.0:2.0:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.5. Sculpture on face granulate to rugulose, on clypeus similar. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:- shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.1:1.0:2.5. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.6:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.8 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.0:3.4. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:1.8:1.0. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.5. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:5.7. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight but angled near vein 1-M. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.1:2.5:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.0 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.3:3.2:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.5 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.3 times longer than wide; raised median area anteriorly smooth and depressed, posterior half and lateral areas strongly strigated, and with median longitudinal groove. Second tergite 2.0 times wider than long; raised median area longitudinally strigated, antero-medial triangular area clearly raised and smooth. Sublateral areas smooth. Third tergite 2.0 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area smooth. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergites four and five similar to three, but antero-lateral areas more narrow. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Orange-brown except for the following which are black: Frons and vertex, antennae and apex of mandibles. Wings fairly evenly darkened, with a hyaline zone in fore wing below pterostigma. Apical 1/6 of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened with hyaline area on marginal cell.

Figures

Figures 8–13. Features of the second and third metasomal tergites of Bathyaulax species. (8) B. lucidus, (9) B. monteiroii, (10) B. nigroconus, (11) B. perspicax, (12) B. raunoi, (13) B. ruber.

Figures 84–87. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (84, 86) B. monteiroii, wing and metasomal tergites 2–3. (85, 87) B. nigritarsus, apical part of hind tibia and tarsus, and metasomal tergites 2–3.