Bathyaulax concolor 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 : 152

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221
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scientific name	Bathyaulax concolor Szépligeti 1906
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Bathyaulax concolor Szépligeti 1906 View in CoL

( Figures 40, 42–44 View Figures 39–43 View Figures 44–47 ) Iphiaulax concolor: Brues 1926

Material examined

Holotype: Male ( MNH): Bathyaulax concolor Szépligeti 1906 . Tanzania, Katona , Mto-ya- Kifaru, 1905.

Description

Male: Length of body 14 mm, of fore wing 13 mm.

Antennae with 96 flagellomeres, but apex broken. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.1:1.8. Width of face:width of head:height of eye5 1.2:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.5. Sculpture on face granulate. Clypeus striated. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.3:1.0:2.8. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.4:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.7:4.4. 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- CU151.0:4.6. Shape of vein 1-SR+M very 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:tarsus52.0:2.3:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.0 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:3.0:1.0. Hind basitarsus 5.0 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.3 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with basal half weakly depressed and striation on posterior half. Second tergite 1.6 times wider than long; strongly medially to sublaterally striated below raised medial triangular area. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, transverse area in between reticulate rugose, laterally smooth, longer medially than laterally. Tergites four and five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, and smooth lateral areas surrounded by similar furrows. Tergites six to eight smooth, tergite six with strigated transverse furrow on basal margin.

Orange-brown except for antenna and apex of mandibles which are black. Wings fairly evenly weakly darkened, with faint hyaline zones in fore wings below pterostigma. Apical quarter of pterostigma yellowish-white.