Bathyaulax ruber ( Bingham 1902 )

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 : 196-197

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221
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scientific name	Bathyaulax ruber ( Bingham 1902 )
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Bathyaulax ruber ( Bingham 1902) View in CoL – complex

( Figures 13 View Figures 8–13 , 101–104 View Figures 100–105 ) Iphiaulax ruber Bingham 1902 Bathyaulax ruber, Shenefelt, 1978 Bathyaulax rufer [sic.] Quicke 1980 Bathyaulax ruber ‘‘Smith’’; Quicke, 1980 [incorrect attribution: see Achterberg and O’Toole (1990)]

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( HECO): Iphiaulax ruber Bingham 1902 . Zimbabwe, Salisbury, Mashonaland, 1900, G.A.K. Marshall.

Additional specimens examined

Iυory Coast: 1 female, Ferkessédougou, 10.– 20.5.1964, J. Decelle ( RMCA) .

Kenya: Tsavo East National Park , nr. Voi Gate, VII-1977, D. Quicke ( BMNH) .

Malaaei: 1 female, Lake Malawi National Park, Cape McClear, 22.11.2003, R.J. Murphy (to be deposited in Malawi Collection) .

Saudi Arabia: 1 female, Taif, 17.6.1934, J.B. Philby ( BMNH) .

Sudan: 1 female, W. Darfur, W. Jebel Murra, Karanga, 20.6.1932, M. Steele ( BMNH) . Uganda: 1 female, Kibale, Bugwere, 30.10.1933, H.B. Johnston ( BMNH) .

Description

Female: Length of body 20 mm, of fore wing 18 mm, of ovipositor 23 mm.

Antennae with 75 flagellomeres (antennae broken). Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:4.1:3.5. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.3:2.3:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:2.0. Sculpture on face granulate to pustulate, on clypeus similar. Over clypeus a small smooth area. Frons weakly depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus: shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.1:1.0:3.8. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.8:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.6 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.2:3.4. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:r-m5 1.0:2.0:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.4. Length of veins 1-CU1:2-CU151.0:8.3. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly S-shaped. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus51.9:2.2:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.6 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:3.1:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.2 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with posterior margin strigated. Second tergite 3.2 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area raised and smooth. Semicircular areas on posterior sub-lateral margins. Third tergite 2.1 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and posterior margins, raised median area longitudinally strigose. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergites four and five similar, but tergite five raised median area smooth. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Orange-brown except for the following which are black: face, frons, vertex, temples, apex of mandibles, antennae and ovipositor sheets. Wings evenly darkened, with a weakly paler area below pterostigma. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened, basal part yellowishorange. Hind wing darkened with pale area on base of marginal cell.