Bohayella temporalis ( Fischer, 1958 )

Edmardash, Yusuf A., Gadallah, Neveen S. & Sharkey, Michael J., 2018, Revision of the subfamily Cardiochilinae Ashmead, 1900 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Egypt, with new records and a new species, Journal of Natural History 52 (5 - 6), pp. 269-297 : 277-278

Bohayella temporalis ( Fischer, 1958)

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Cardiochiles temporalis Fischer, 1958 . Polskie Pismo Ent. 28(2): 22, ♂. ‘ Gebel Elba , Ägypten ’ (Wien, ♂) (Leg. Priesner) .

Modified from description and illustration of Fischer (1958).

Diagnosis

Body small in size (less than 4.0 mm), generally black with some reddish parts; occipital carina absent in malar region; maxillary palp 5-segmented (in Egyptian species) or 6-segmented; mandible unidentate (in Egyptian species) or bidentate; hind tarsal claws pectinate with apical tooth broad; hypopygium evenly sclerotised throughout, truncate apically, hardly seen beyond apex of metasoma; ovipositor and sheath very short, less than 0.2× as long as hind tibia, stout, strongly curved downwardly.

Abbreviated description

Length of body: 3.4 mm; Length of fore wing: 2.9 mm.

Body generally black, with the following reddish areas: mandibles (except mandibular teeth that are darker than rest of mandible), mesonotum (except for a black spot on the side of scutellum), tegula, basal half of the metasoma, and apex of fore leg; basitarsus whitish; all tibial spurs brown; wings entirely heavily infuscated; wing veins of fore wing and pterostigma uniformly dark brown. Head: antenna with 23 flagellomeres. Fore wing: 1-SR+M 4.87× as long as m-cu; 2-SR+M 3.25× as long as mcu; 1-M nearly straight (slightly curved basally), m-cu 0.33× as long as 1-M; discal cell 0.56× as long as wide; 1-A present; 1-2A+3A spectral; 1-Cua 0.3× as long as 1-Cub; 2r 0.42× as long as inside height of SMC2, arising 0.7 along the length of stigma apically; stigma 3.85× as long as wide; angle between 4SRa and Rs 140°; angle between Rs and r-m 92°; spectral node of 3r absent; SMC2 slightly less than 0.46× as long as wide; 2 + 3-SR arched at the base. Metasoma: T1 2.0× as long as broad; T2, at the narrowest point, 0.5× T3 width.

Material examined

None.

Distribution

So far endemic to Egypt (Gebel Elba, Fischer 1958 as Cardiochiles temporalis ; Yu et al. 2012).

Host records

Unknown.

Figures

Figure 2. Fore wing, apical two-thirds. (a) Bohayella temporalis (after Fischer 1958); (b) Cardiochiles priesneri; (c) C. pseudofallax; (d) C. weidholzi. (all ≈ 1× scale line).