Bathyaulax jimii, Kaartinen & Quicke, 2007

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 : 167-168

Bathyaulax jimii sp. nov.

( Figures 66–68 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( RMCA): D. R. Congo: Lac Albert, Ishva, IX-1935, H.J. Brédo.

Description

Female: Length of body 20 mm, of fore wing 16 mm, of ovipositor 19 mm.

Antennae with 113 (apex broken) flagellomeres. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:4.5:3.8. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Sculpture on face punctate. Clypeus granulate. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.2:1.0:2.6. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.7:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.4:3.9. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:1.9:1.2. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.4. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.4. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.8 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus51.9:2.1:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.3 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:2.8:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.3 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with medial longitudinal groove, posteriorly strigose. Second tergite 1.8 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 strigated, antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, antero-lateral areas smooth. Sculpture on tergite four raised median area reticulate to rugose, in tergite five only smooth. 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 evenly darkened.

Etymology

Named after the senior author’s nephew, Jimi Kaartinen.

Figures

Figures 66–70. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (66)–(68) B. jimii, face, scape and metasomal tergites 2–3. (69, 70) B. juhai, wing and metasomal tergites 2–3.