Asobara kawandensis Peris-Felipo, 2019

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2019, Revision of the Afrotropical Asobara Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), with the descriptions of twenty five new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 557, pp. 1-146 : 21-22

Asobara kawandensis Peris-Felipo , sp. nov.

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Figs 27–28

Etymology

The name is from geographical area ‘Kawanda’, the type locality of the species.

Material examined

Holotype

UGANDA • ♀; Kawanda; Jun. 1943; T.H.C. Taylor leg.; BMNH.

Paratype

UGANDA • 1 ♀; same label as for holotype; BMNH .

Description

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 2.5 mm, fore wing 2.5 mm, hind wing 1.6 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7 times as wide as long, 1.3 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view about as high as wide and 2.5 times as wide as temple medially. POL 1.5 times OD; OOL 3.0 times OD. Face 1.9 times as wide as high, with sparse setae; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus 2.1 times as wide as high, slightly concave ventrally. Anterior tentorial pits short, far not reaching inner border of eye. Mandible 1.6 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide; middle tooth rather narrow and long, directed upwards; lower tooth wider than upper tooth. Antennae 26-segmented, 1.4 times as long as body. Scape 2.0 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 2.5 times as long as its apical width, 0.7 times as long as 2 nd segment. Second flagellar segment 4.3 times, 3 rd segment 4.3 times, 4 th segment 4.0 times, 5 th– 6 th segments 3.6 times, 7 th– 16 th segments 3.1 times, 17 th– 23 rd segments 2.5–2.6 times and 24 th (apical segment) 3.0 times as long as its maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view, 1.2 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 0.8 times as long as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit present, round. Prescutellar depression smooth, with only median carina, as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, weakly crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum smooth, with short medio-longitudinal carina with short carinae reaching not reaching lateral side of propodeum. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.3 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Length of fore wing 3.1 times its maximum width. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 4.0 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 6.3 times as long as vein r, 1.5 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 2.6 times as long as vein 3-SR. Hind wing 5.1 times as long as its maximum width.

LEGS. Hind femur 3.6 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened to apex, 9.1 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 1.2 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 2.0 times as long as 2 nd segment.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.2 times as long as its apical width, weakly striate. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 1.8 times as long as 1 st tergite, 0.5 times as long as metasoma, 1.5 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, antennae and pterostigma dark brown. Head, scapus, pedicel, mandible and yellow to light brown. Stemmaticum dark brown. In dorsal view, head paler than mesoscutum, with brown line in middle of head. First metasomal tergite paler than 2 nd and 3 rd tergites. Wings almost hyaline.

VARIATION. No variation observed between females.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This new species is similar to A. ugandensis Fischer, 2007 , but differs from it in having the head in dorsal view 1.7 times as wide as long (2.0 times in A. ugandensis ), eye in lateral view 2.5 times as wide as temple medially (1.1 times in A. ugandensis ), precoxal sulcus not reaching anterior and posterior margins of propodeum (reaching in A. ugandensis ), 1 st flagellar segment 2.5 times as long as its maximum width (3.6 times in A. ugandensis ), 2 nd segment 4.3 times (6.3 times in A. ugandensis ), 3 rd segment 3.7 times (4.8 times in A. ugandensis ) and hind femur 3.6 times as long as its maximum width (6.0 times in A. ugandensis ).

Distribution

Uganda.

Figures

Fig. 27. Asobara kawandensis Peris-Felipo, sp. nov., ♀, holotype (BMNH). A. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. B. Mandible. C. Antenna. D. Head, front view. E. Head and mesoscutum, dorsal view. F. Propodeum.

Fig. 28. Asobara kawandensis Peris-Felipo, sp. nov., ♀, holotype (BMNH). A. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. B. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. C. Fore wing.