Doggerella longitergita Mahmood, Quicke & Papp

Mahmood, Khalid, Papp, Jeno & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2011, A new Afrotropical genus Doggerella gen. nov. of braconine wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with twelve new species, Zootaxa 2927, pp. 1-37 : 8

Doggerella longitergita Mahmood, Quicke & Papp sp. nov. ( Figs 6 a–e, 17a–f)

Female: Body length 3.75 mm, fore wing length 4.00 mm.

Male: Body length 2.75 mm, fore wing length 2.75 mm.

Head: Antenna 30 segmented as long as head, mesosoma and first two tergites of metasoma, terminal segment pointed, simple (not acuminate), 1.67 times longer than wide, penultimate segment 1.4 times longer than wide, first flagellomere 1.1 and 1.2 times longer than second and third respectively. Scape 3.0 times as long as pedicel. Intertentorial distance 1.50 times tentorio-ocular distance. Face setose, transverse in frontal view, 1.6 times wider than high ( Fig. 17 b), width of face 0.53 times width of head. Head entirely coriaceous entirely ( Fig. 17 c), cubic in dorsal view, 1.5 times as broad as long, head extended considerably above to level of eyes. Eye height almost equal (1.13 times) to face width, eye glabrous in dorsal view. Temple not strongly receding behind eye. Stemmaticum with round edges, posterior ocellar line: transverse diameter of posterior ocellus: shortest distance between posterior ocellus to eye=3.0:1.0:3.5.

Mesosoma: Almost entirely setose ( Figs 6 b, 17d), 1.7 times longer than maximally high. Pronotum smooth laterally. Mesoscutum setose. Notauli weakly but distinctly impressed on anterior 0.85 of mesoscutum. Mesopleural sulcus absent. Scutellar sulcus narrow and finely crenulate. Propodeum smooth, shiny, with sparsely distributed long setae.

Wings: Fore wing ( Figs 6 c, 17e). Ratio of length of veins SR1:3-SR:r=3.9:2.0:1.0. Ratio of length of veins 2- SR:3-SR:r-m=1.5:2.3:1.0. Veins 2-M & 3-SR, 3.50 times & 2.25 times as long as r-m, respectively. Vein 1-M straight. Vein 1-SR+M straight, distinctly less sclerotized near the origin of 1-SR. Vein cu-a interstitial to marginally post furcal. Veins 1-M and m-cu distinctly curving towards anterior wing margin. Ratio of length of veins 1- M:m-cu=2.6:1.0. Vein 3-CU1 curved posteriorly. Hind wing. Evenly setose. Vein SC+R1 2.14 times length of 1rm. Vein 1r-m 1.75 times length of R1.

Legs: Claw simple. Ratio of length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus=2.5:3.1:1.0. Hind femur (excluding trochantellus) 3.1 times longer than maximally deep, broadest at middle, sparsely setose. Hind tibia entirely setose. Hind basitarsus 3.2 times longer than maximally deep. Outer hind tibial spur reaching approximately 0.38 of distance along basitarsus.

Metasoma: Sparsely setose and foveolate ( Figs 6 d–e, 17f). First tergite sparsely setose, weakly crenulated. Second tergite entirely setose, finely and weakly crenulated, 1.2 times medially longer as third. Second and third tergites less transverse, second tergite 1.5 times and third tergite 1.8 times as wide apically as long medially. Second metasomal suture narrow. Third tergite sparsely setose, crenulated. Fourth and fifth tergites sparsely setose, crenulated. Hypopygium large and protruding beyond apex of tergites. Ovipositor sheath 0.85 mm long, ovipositor pointed at apex without a distinct nodus. Lower valve of ovipositor with no teeth visible at x40 magnification.

Coloration: Head mostly black. Mesosoma mostly black and shiny, sides of pronotum yellow brown. All legs black. Wings almost clear, venation and pterostigma brownish. Metasoma mostly yellow brown, pleuron of tergites fourth and fifth, tergite sixth and tergite seventh dark brown. Sternites with black markings.

Etymology: Named after having long metasomal tergites.

Material examined: Holotype: female, South Africa, Cape Peninsula, Camps Bay, 22–24.x.1920, R.E. Turner, BMNH. Paratypes female & male, same data as holotype, female, South Africa, Grahamstown, 1–11.i.1971, Fred Gess, AEI.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Doggerella longitergita sp. n.; a, habitus ,, lateral aspect; b, mesosoma, dorsal aspect; c, fore wing, distal part; d, metasoma, lateral aspect; e, metasoma from tergite 2, dorsal aspect. Doggerella minuta sp. n.; f, habitus, lateral aspect.

FIGURE 17. Doggerella longitergita sp. n.; a, habitus, lateral aspect; b, head, frontal aspect; c, head, dorsal aspect; d, mesosoma, dorsal aspect; e, fore wing, distal part; f, metasoma from tergite 2, lateral aspect.