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 : 207

Bathyaulax IJarkonyii sp. nov.

( Figures 120, 121 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( BMNH): Tanzania, Tanganyika T., Maagaa, E. of Singida, X–XII- 1935, E. Burtt.

Description

Female: Length of body 17 mm, of fore wing 16 mm, of ovipositor 16 mm.

Antennae with 103 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 1.8 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.3:3.5. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Sculpture on face punctate to punctulate. Clypeus rugose. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.0:1.1:3.3. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.3:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.6 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.1:3.2. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:1.9:1.4. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.6. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.6. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight, but weakly curved towards posterior margin close to vein 1-M. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus51.8:2.1:1.0. Fore basitarsus 5.2 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.3:3.3:1.0. Hind basitarsus 5.3 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.6 times longer than wide; raised median area anteriorly smooth with a medial longitudinal groove, postero-laterally strigose. Second tergite 2.1 times wider than long; medial and antero-medial triangular areas raised and strongly strigose. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area strongly strigated, antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five similar to three, but tergite five raised medial area smooth. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Yellow except for the following which are black: antenna, partly frons and area around stemmaticum, apex of mandibles and ovipositor sheets. Hair on antennae whitish-yellow. Wings weakly darkened with paler areas in fore wing below pterostigma and in hind wing in the base on the marginal cell.

Etymology

Named after Dr. Gergely Várkonyi.

Figures

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