Bathyaulax, Szepligeti, 1906

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 : 158-159

Bathyaulax flaIJipera ( Enderlein 1918)

( Figures 52, 53 ) Euryacria flaυipera Enderlein 1918 Iphiaulax flaυipera: Brues 1926 Bathyaulax (Euryacria) flaυipera: Fahringer 1931 Bathyaulax flaυipera: Granger 1949

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( ZPAN) ‘‘ Euryacria flaυipera Enderlein (1918) Madagascar, Mont D’Ambre [no date], Hammerstein S.

Additional specimens examined

Madagascar: 1 female, 1 male, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, X-1936, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) ; 7 females, 1 male, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, X-1933, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) ; 3 females, 13 males, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, IX-1933, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) ; 1 female, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, V-1934, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) ; 1, male, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, IX-1936, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) ; 1 male, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, XI-1936, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) ; 1 female, Bekily , Reg. sud de L’Ile, XII-1936, A. Seyrig ( MNHN) .

Description

Female: Length of body 10 mm, of fore wing 8 mm, of ovipositor 5 mm.

Antennae with 102 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere 3.3 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.2:1.9. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.1:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Sculpture on face minute punctulation. Clypeus granulate. Frons weakly depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:- shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.2:1.0:3.1. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye512.1:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.4:2.8. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.3:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.7. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:6.7. Shape of vein 1-SR+M concave, more strongly close to vein 1-M. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.6 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:2.4:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.6 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.3:3.1:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.6 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.2 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth. Second tergite 3.2 times wider than long; smooth, triangular median area distinctive and raised, smooth, with carinae on apical side. Third tergite 3.8 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrow on anterior margin, raised median and antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five smooth with strigated transverse furrow on anterior margin. Tergites six and seven smooth.

Yellow except for the following which are black: triangle-shaped area on top of clypeus continuing between toruli, apex of mandibles, temples and dorsal side of the head, occiput, antennae, propleuron, dorsal part of pronotum, antero-lateral mesoscutum, dorsal part of mesopleuron. Wings evenly weakly darkened, with a darker area on the base of pterostigma of fore wing.

Figures

Figures 52–56. Automontageș 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.