Bathyaulax rufa ( Szépligeti 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 : 197-198

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-CF5E-FFF9-CBC9-FE8BA531FDF3
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Bathyaulax rufa ( Szépligeti 1906 )
status

Treatment

Bathyaulax rufa ( Szépligeti 1906) View in CoL

( Figures 14 View Figures 14–18 , 105 View Figures 100–105 ) Megagonia rufa Szepligeti 1906 Bathyaulax rufus: Brues 1926 Bathyaulax transitus ( Szépligeti 1913) syn. nov. Goniobracon transitus Szépligeti 1913 Iphiaulax transitus: Brues 1926

Material examined

Holotypes: Male (MNH): Megagonia rufa Szepligeti 1906 , Kenya, Katona, Mto-ja-Kifaru [no date]. Female (MNH): Goniobracon transitus Szépligeti 1913 . Kenya, Katona, Assab, 1907.

Additional specimens examined

Kenya: 2 females, 2 males, Tsavo East National Park , VI-1977, D. Quicke ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tsavo East National Park , 13.7.1977, D. Quicke ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tsavo East National Park , 1981, D. Quicke ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tsavo East National Park , 6.8.1976, D. Quicke ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tsavo East National Park , VII-1977, D. Quicke ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tsavo East National Park , 15.8.1976, D. Quicke ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Northern Frontier District , Juba River, 18.7.1922, J.O. Beven ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Tsavo East National Park , VIII-1977, D. Quicke ( CNCI) .

Description

Female: Length of body 14 mm, of fore wing 15 mm, of ovipositor 17 mm.

Antennae with 119 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 3.8 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:2.7:2.6. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.3:2.3:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:2.1. Sculpture on face granulate, on clypeus similar. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.0:1.0:3.0. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.0:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.5 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.8:4.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:1.8:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.2. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.9. Vein 1-SR+M weakly S-curved. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.4 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.4:2.6:1.0. Fore basitarsus 3.3 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus51.8:2.8:1.0. Hind basitarsus 5.2 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.4 times longer than wide; raised median area with medial longitudinal groove and whole area strongly strigated. Strigae on sub-lateral area curve downwards. Second tergite 1.9 times wider than long; raised median area strongly strigated, antero-medial triangular area only weakly raised with reticulate sculpture, continuing to posterior margin. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area longitudinally strigose to reticulate rugose. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergite four similar, but raised median area is reticulate rugose. Tergite five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area almost smooth, with very weak pustulation. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Orange-brown except for apex of mandibles which are black and brown antennae. Wings darkened, with two hyaline areas in fore wing below pterostigma and basally to veins 1-M and cu-a. Apical third of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened on posterior and apical margin.