Bathyaulax erythropus, Kaartinen & Quicke, 2007
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publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-CF36-FF91-CBC7-FD8EA086FECC |
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treatment provided by |
Carolina |
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scientific name |
Bathyaulax erythropus |
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sp. nov. |
Bathyaulax erythropus View in CoL sp. nov.
( Figures 50, 51 View Figures 48–51 )
Material examined
Holotype: Female ( BMNH): Kenya, Voi River Valley , Pipe line Roads, VI-1977, D. Quicke.
Description
Female: Length of body 16mm, of fore wing 13mm, of ovipositor 13mm.
Antennae with 105 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 2.3 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.0:2.7. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.7. Sculpture on face granulate to pustulate. Clypeus granulate. Frons weakly depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:- shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.4:1.0:3.4. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.4:1.0.
Mesosoma approximately 1.8 times longer than maximally deep.
Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:3.0:3.3. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.6:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.8. Length of veins 1-CU1:2-CU15 1.0:5.7. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly but distinctly S-shaped. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.
Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:2.3:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.7 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.1:3.0:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.6 times longer than deep.
First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with medial longitudinal groove and strigation on posterior margin. Second tergite 1.7 times wider than long; medial area raised and strigose. Antero-medial triangular area raised and smooth. Third tergite 2.0 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area rugose, antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, antero-lateral and median areas smooth and raised. Tergites six to eight smooth.
Yellow except for the following which are black: antenna, small area around stemmaticum, apex of mandibles and ovipositor sheets. Fore wings darkened with weakly paler areas below pterostigma and narrowly around vein r-m. Hind wings darkened with a paler area in the base of the marginal cell.
Etymology
Named after senior author’s favourite bird, Lesser White-Fronted goose, Anser erythropus .
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