Asobara pulchricornis (Szépligeti, 1911) Peris-Felipo & Achterberg & Belokobylskij, 2019

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 : 36-37

Asobara pulchricornis (Szépligeti, 1911) comb. nov.

Figs 48–49

Phaenocarpa pulchricornis Szépligeti, 1911: 329 .

Phaenocarpa pulchricornis – Fischer 1963: 213 . — Papp 1966: 134. — Shenefelt 1974: 1013. — Yu et al. 2016.

Material examined

Holotype

UGANDA • ♀; “Nördl.v.Alb. Edw, See Ruwensori Westsente”; 1800 m a.s.l.; 2 Aug [Exped.: Herzog Adolf Friedrich z. Mecklenburg]; NHMB.

Redescription

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 2.2 mm, fore wing 2.6 mm, hind wing 1.7 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7 times as wide as long, 1.3 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.2 times as high as wide and 1.9 times as wide as temple medially. POL 1.0 times OD; OOL 3.5 times OD. Face 1.3 times as wide as high, with sparse setae; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus 4.8 times as wide as high, slightly concave ventrally. Anterior tentorial pits short, far from reaching inner border of eye. Mandible 1.9 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide and obtuse; middle tooth rather narrow and long; lower tooth short. Antennae 24-segmented, 1.6 times as long as body. First flagellar segment 3.1 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 5.8 times and 3 rd segment 5.3 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.3 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 0.8 times as long as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit present, oval-elongate. Prescutellar depression smooth, without lateral carinae, about as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum with several smooth patches, with large, thin and mainly smooth pentagonal areola; basolateral areas smooth. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.2 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Length of fore wing 3.3 times its maximum width. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 4.7 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 9.1 times as long as vein r and 2.8 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 2.2 times as long as vein 3-SR. Hind wing 5.9 times as long as its maximum width.

LEGS. Hind femur 5.0 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened to apex, 11.0 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 1.1 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 2.0 times as long as 2 nd segment.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.3 times as long as its apical width, weakly striate. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 2.8 times as long as 1 st tergite, 0.8 times as long as metasoma and1.3 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, mandible, antennae and pterostigma brown. Legs yellow. Last seven apical segments of antennae whitish. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured. First metasomal tergite paler than 2 nd and 3 rd tergites. Wings almost hyaline.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This species is similar to A. caboverdensis sp. nov., but differs from it in having the 1 st metasomal tergite 1.3 times as long as its apical width (1.0 times in A. caboverdensis ), mandible 1.9 times as long as its maximum width (1.6 times in A. caboverdensis ), upper tooth obtuse (curved in A. caboverdensis ), clypeus 4.8 times as wide as high (2.5 times in A. caboverdensis ), and mesoscutal pit oval-elongate (round in A. caboverdensis ).

Distribution

Uganda ( Yu et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 48. Asobara pulchricornis (Szépligeti, 1911), ♀, holotype (NHMB). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Habitus, dorsal view. C. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. D. Mandible. E. Antenna. F. Head, front view.

Fig. 49. Asobara pulchricornis (Szépligeti, 1911), ♀, holotype (NHMB). A. Head and mesoscutum, dorsal view. B. Propodeum, dorsal view. C. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. D. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. E. Fore and hind wings.