Asobara subdentata ( Granger, 1949 )

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 : 44-45

Asobara subdentata ( Granger, 1949)

Figs 60–61

Phaenocarpa subdentata Granger, 1949: 404 .

Phaenocarpa subdentata – Fischer 1963: 213 . — Papp 1966: 134. — Shenefelt 1974: 1016.

Asobara subdentata Fischer, 2007: 860 .

Asobara subdentata – Yu et al. 2016 .

Material examined

Holotype MADAGASCAR • ♀; “ Tananarive , Dec. 1929 ”; A. Seyrig leg.; MNHN.

Redescription

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 2.0 mm, fore wing 2.3 mm, hind wing 1.6 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7 times as wide as long, 1.4 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.6 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.2 times as wide as high. Clypeus 2.5 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.7 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide; middle tooth rather narrow and long; lower tooth wide. Antennae 22-segmented. First flagellar segment 4.5 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 5.8 times and 3 rd segment 3.3 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.4 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 1.2 times as long as its maximum width. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit present, oval. Prescutellar depression smooth, with only median carina, 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum weakly and sparsely sculptured, with several smooth patches, with large, narrow and mainly smooth pentagonal areola; basolateral areas smooth, sparsely rugose along carinae. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.3 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.3 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 7.1 times as long as vein r and 1.8 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.7 times as long as vein 3-SR.

LEGS. Hind femur 5.0 times as long as its maximum width.

METASOMA. First tergite widened towards apex, 1.5 times as long as its apical width, weakly striate. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 0.9 times as long as 1 st tergite, 0.2 times as long as metasoma and 0.5 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, antennae (except apically), mandible and pterostigma dark brown. Legs and last seven flagellar segments yellow. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured. First metasomal tergite paler than 2 nd and 3 rd tergites. Wings hyaline.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This species is similar to A. harrinsmithensis sp. nov.; the differences between both species are described under the latter species.

Distribution

Madagascar ( Yu et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 60. Asobara subdentata (Granger, 1949), ♀, holotype (MNHN). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. C. Mandible. D. Antenna. E. Head, front view. F. Head, dorsal view.

Fig. 61. Asobara subdentata (Granger, 1949), ♀, holotype (MNHN). A. Habitus, dorsal view. B. Mesoscutum, dorsal view. C. Propodeum and first metasomal tergite, dorsal view. D. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. E. Fore wing.