Bathyaulax, Szepligeti, 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 : 205-206

Bathyaulax IJaripennis (Szépligeti 1914)

( Figures 17 , 119 ) Goniobracon υaripennis Szépligeti 1914a Iphiaulax υaripennis: Brues 1926 Bathyaulax υaripennis [!] Fahringer 1931

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( ZMHB): Goniobracon υaripennis Szépligeti 1914. Ethiopia, Hore [?], 23.5.1901, B.v.Erlanger.

Description

Female: Length of body 15 mm, of fore wing 16 mm, of ovipositor 8 mm.

Antennae with 113 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 1.9 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.3:2.9. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.3:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Sculpture on face punctulate, on clypeus rugose. Frons weakly depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.5:1.0:3.4. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.9:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.5 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.4:3.4. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.0:1.2. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.5. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.9. Shape of vein 1-SR+M almost straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.4 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus51.9:2.3:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.3 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:3.2:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.6 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.1 times longer than wide; raised median area with longitudinal groove and posterior area strongly strigated. Second tergite 2.1 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area weakly raised and strigated. Third tergite 2.3 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area longitudinally strigose to reticulate rugose. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergites four similar. Tergites five and six with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area punctulate.

Orange-brown except for the following which are black: stemmaticum and frons, apex of mandibles, antennae and ovipositor sheets. Wings fairly evenly weakly darkened, with two hyaline areas in fore wing below pterostigma and on basal and subbasal cells. Apical fifth of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened postero-apically.

Figures

Figures 14–18. Features of the second and third (14)–(17) and fifth and sixth (18) metasomal tergites of Bathyaulax species. (14) B. rufa, (15) B. somaliensis, (16) B. syraensis, (17) B. υaripennis, (18) B. kersteni.

Figures 119–121. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (119) B. υaripennis, wings. (120, 121) B. υarkonyii, metasomal tergites 1–3 and tergites 3–6.