Asobara turneri Peris-Felipo, 2014

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 : 47-49

Asobara turneri Peris-Felipo, 2014

Figs 66–67

Asobara turneri Peris-Felipo et al., 2014a: 697 .

Asobara turneri – Yu et al. 2016 .

Material examined

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; E. Cape Prov., Katberg ; 4000 ft [= 1220 m a.s.l.]; Dec. 1932; R.E. Turner leg.; BMNH 1933-69.

Paratypes

SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; E. Cape Prov., Katberg ; 19–26 Feb. 1933; R.E. Turner leg.; BMNH 1933-175 • 1 ♂; Cape Province, Somerset East ; 10–22 Dec. 1930; R.E. Turner leg.; BMNH, 1931-37 .

Description

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 3.6–3.8 mm, fore wing 4.6–4.7 mm, hind wing 3.1 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 1.4 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.6 times as wide as high. Clypeus 1.6 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.1 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth of mandible longer than lower tooth; middle tooth wide basally and narrowed towards apex, pointed apically; lower tooth rounded apically. Antennae 26–31-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.6–3.7 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 6.4–6.5 times and 3 rd segment 4.8 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.3 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 1.1 times as long as its maximum width. Notauli complete, finely crenulate, reaching anteriorly mesoscutal mid pit. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression sculptured, with lateral carinae, 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulate. Propodeum sculptured, with complete mediolongitudinal carina, completely sculptured in apical half. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.3 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.7 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 7.0 times as long as vein r and 1.9 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.7 times as long as vein 3-SR.

LEGS. Hind femur 6.7 times as long as its maximum width.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.3 times as long as its apical width, sculptured. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 4.6 times as long as 1 st tergite, 1.3 times as long as metasoma and 2.0 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body dark brown. Legs brown. Wings hyaline. Pterostigma brown. In dorsal view, head darker than mesoscutum. First–third metasomal tergites similarly coloured. Wings hyaline.

Male

Length. Body length 3.7 mm; fore wing length 3.3 mm. Antennae 27-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its maximum width; 2 nd segment 7.6 times as long as its maximum width and 2.2 times as long as 1 st segment. Hind femur 5.9 times as long as its maximum width.

Comparative diagnosis

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

Distribution

South Africa ( Peris-Felipo et al. 2014a).

Figures

Fig. 66. Asobara turneri Peris-Felipo, 2014,A, C–F: ♀, holotype (BMNH);B: ♂ (BMNH). A–B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Head, lateral view. D. Antenna. E. Mandible. F. Head, front view.

Fig. 67. Asobara turneri Peris-Felipo, 2014, ♀, holotype (BMNH). A. Head, dorsal view. B. Mesosoma, lateral view. C. Mesoscutum, dorsal view. D. Propodeum, dorsal view. E. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. F. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. G. Fore and hind wings.