Coccygidium luteum ( Brullé, 1846 )

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2022, New species and records of braconid wasps from Farasan Archipelago (Jazan) Saudi Arabia, with notes on Diolcogaster mayae Shestakov, Zootaxa 5104 (1), pp. 49-79 : 51-52

Coccygidium luteum ( Brullé, 1846)

Figs 1 A–C

Agathis luteum Brullé, 1846: 506 .

Diagnosis. Body including legs yellowish red to orange ( Fig. 1A ) (except apex of metatibia dark brown to black ( Figs 1A–C ), hind tarsus dark; antenna with scape and pedicel dark reddish brown, with orange marking on scape ventrally ( Fig. 1B ), flagellum entirely dark brown to black ( Fig. 1A ); ovipositor sheath dark brown ( Fig. 1A ). Wings hyaline to subhyaline, without infumated areas; pterostigma of fore wing dark brown to black, wing veins yellowish. Mesoscutum with wide crenulate notauli, meeting before its posterior margin. Metatibia more or less slender, with dark apex distinctly differentiated from the rest of the tibia ( Fig. 1C ); eye height 4.6× as long as malar space ( Fig. 1B ); fore wing with vein 1–M slightly bent posteriorly; OOL and POL 0.5–0.25× posterior ocellus diameter, respectively; ovipositor sheaths short.

Material examined. 1♀, KSA: Jazan (Farasan Islands, Al-Sajid, before Khotp ), 16.883482N, 41.909728 E, 17. ii. 2017, sweeping net, leg. Usama M. Abu El-Ghiet & Tarek M. El-Sheikh.

General distribution. Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rodrigues Island, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda ( Yu et al. 2016), Yemen (including Socotra) ( van Achterberg 2011), Saudi Arabia (new record).

Remarks. This is the first record of C. luteum for the Saudi Arabian fauna. It was previously recorded from Yemen by van Achterberg (2011). Although the Saudi Arabian specimen is somewhat lighter, this species agrees with Coccygidium luteum in van Achterberg’s key to the Arabian species (2011, couplet 3, p. 314) and van Achterberg’s plates 56–64.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Coccygidium luteum (Brullé, 1846) (♀). A, lateral habitus; B, frontal view of head; C, metatibia and tarsus (part). A: scale bar (= 1.0 ×); B: 2.8×; C: 3.4×.