Phanerotoma masiana Fahringer, 1934

Achterberg, Cornelis van, 2021, The tribe Phanerotomini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) of the Arabian Peninsula, with special reference to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, ZooKeys 1014, pp. 1-118 : 1

Phanerotoma masiana Fahringer, 1934 Figs 221-223 , 224-234

Phanerotoma ? Phanerotoma parva Kokujev; Masi 1932: 434-435.

Phanerotoma parva var. masiana Fahringer, 1934: 573; Shenefelt 1973: 922.

Phanerotoma (Bracotritoma) masiana ; van Achterberg, 1990: 44 (as valid species).

Type material.

Lectotype, ♂, (Museum Genova): "[Libya,] Miss. Zool. a Cufra, Gialo, iv.1931", “♀” [incorrect = ♂], “Typus”, " Ph. parva var. masiana Fahr."; paralectotype, 1 ♂, topotypic, but v.1931 and labelled " Phanerotoma parva "

Additional material.

Large series collected by light traps in United Arab Emirates (NARC near Sweihan; Wadi Safad; Hatta; Sharjah x Khor Kalba; Wadi Wurajah Farms; Sharjah Desert Park; Al-Ajban; Fujairah; Wadi Shawkah; near Mahafiz; SSW of ad-Dhaid; Wadi Maidaq) and Yemen (Al Kadan; Hamman; Al Kowd; Ta’izz; Seyun; Mayfa’ah); additional series examined from Saudi Arabia (Zalim; Wadi Tinan, 850 m; 16 km W. Badr Hu-nayn; Wadi Luotaie; Hakimah, 85 m) and Egypt (Wadi Isla, Sinai; Khamissa).

Diagnosis.

Ocelli medium-sized; upper condyles of mandibles near lower level of eyes (Fig. 231 ); antenna of ♀ with six-seven moniliform apical segments (Fig. 234 ); inner tooth of mandible ca. 0.7 × as long as apical tooth (Fig. 229 ); POL of ♀ ca. 1.1 × diameter of posterior ocellus (Fig. 230 ); area of mesosternum near mesosternal sulcus shiny and superficially granulate or smooth; parastigma large and yellow (Fig. 224 ); vein r of fore wing 1.2-2.3 × vein 3-SR of fore wing (Fig. 224 ); vein 1-R1 0.9-1.6 × distance from 1-R1 to wing apex; maximum width of pterostigma ca. 4.5 × vein 3-SR of fore wing (Fig. 224 ); medial length of third metasomal tergite 1.2-1.5 × length of second tergite, third tergite acute apically in lateral view and without transverse depression, partly smooth and shiny medio-dorsally (Figs 226 , 227 ); length of fore wing (1.5-)1.9-2.9 mm, of body 2.5-3.6 mm.

Distribution.

Egypt, Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia, *United Arab Emirates, *Yemen.

Biology.

Unknown. Collected mainly in January-April in UAE and mainly in May-December in Yemen.

Notes.

If antenna of ♀ slender submedially, upper condyles of mandible above lower level of eyes, hind femur wider, length of fore wing ca. 1.8 mm and pterostigma slenderer, cf. P. ebneri Fahringer, 1924, from Sudan.

Figures

Figures 221 - 223. Phanerotoma masiana Fahringer, ♀ (but 222, 223 of ♂), UAE 221 habitus lateral 222 antenna lateral 223 hind femur and tibia lateral.

Figures 224 - 234. Phanerotoma masiana Fahringer, ♀, UAE 224 wings 225 mesosoma dorsal 226 first-third metasomal tergites dorsal 227 metasoma lateral 228 antenna lateral 229 mandible ventral 230 head dorsal 231 head anterior 232 head lateral 233 hind femur and tibia lateral 234 apical half of antenna lateral.