Bathyaulax fortisulcatus ( Strand 1912 )

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 : 159-160

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-CF30-FF97-CB94-FDEEA6FFF923

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Bathyaulax fortisulcatus ( Strand 1912 )
status

 

Bathyaulax fortisulcatus ( Strand 1912) View in CoL

( Figures 6 View Figures 2–7 , 54 View Figures 52–56 ) Iphiaulax fortisulcatus Strand 1912 Iphiaulacidea (?) fortisulcatus Fahringer 1926

Material examined

Holotype: Male ( ZMHB): Iphiaulax fortisulcatus Strand 1912 , SYRIA?, [no date] Ehrnbg.

Additional specimens examined

Kenya: 1 female, Tsavo East NP. 15.8.1976, D. Quicke ( BMNH) .

Description

Male: Length of body 14 mm, of fore wing 11 mm.

Antennae with 85 flagellomeres, but apex broken. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:2.6:2.7. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.5:3.0:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.7. Sculpture on face granulate to pustulate, on clypeus similar. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.2:1.0:2.4. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.7:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.6 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.1:3.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:1.7:1.1. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:3.8. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:7.6. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly S-shaped. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:2.4:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.5 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.7:3.4:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.4 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.3 times longer than wide; raised median area longitudinally depressed and whole area strongly strigated. Second tergite 2.2 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area not raised or conspicuous. Third tergite 2.2 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 and five similar. Tergites six and seven smooth.

Orange-brown except for apex of mandibles which are black. Wings fairly evenly weakly darkened, with two hyaline zones in fore wing below pterostigma and basally to veins 1-M and cu-a. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened with two hyaline areas around vein 1-M and costal and marginal cells.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Bathyaulax

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