Asobara kenyaensis 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 : 22-23

Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo, 2014

Figs 29–30

Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo et al., 2014a: 694 .

Asobara kenyaensis – Yu et al. 2016 .

Material examined

Holotype

KENYA • ♀; Kakamega Forest ; 20 Dec. 1970; B.M. 1972-211; A.E. Stubbs leg.; BMNH.

Paratypes

KENYA • 6 ♀♀; same label as for holotype; BMNH • 2 ♀♀; same label as for holotype; ZISP .

Description

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 2.6–2.8 mm, fore wing 3.1–3.3 mm, hind wing 2.1 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7–1.8 times as wide as long, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.2 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.5 times as wide as high. Clypeus 1.7 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.5 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth of mandible longer than lower tooth; middle tooth wide basally and narrowed towards apex, rounded apically; lower tooth rounded apically. Antennae 23–25-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 7.5 times and 3 rd segment 6.6 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.2–1.3 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) about as long as its maximum width. Notauli complete, crenulate, reaching mesoscutal mid pit. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression sculptured, 1.7 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulate. Propodeum sculptured, with long medio-longitudinal carina and small areola in posterior half, with apical half densely sculptured, with lateral tubercles. Propodeal spiracle relatively small.

WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.9 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 6.0 times as long as vein r and 2.5 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.8 times as long as vein 3-SR.

LEGS. Hind femur 7.0 times as long as its maximum width.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.7 times as long as its apical width, completely sculptured. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 3.9 times as long as 1 st tergite, 1.4 times as long as metasoma, 1.5 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body dark brown. Legs brown. Wings hyaline. Pterostigma brown. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured as 1 st– 3 rd metasomal tergites. Wings hyaline.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This species is similar to A. kaipiriensis Fischer, 2007 ; the differences between both species are described under the latter species.

Distribution

Kenya ( Peris-Felipo et al. 2014a).

Figures

Fig. 29. Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo, 2014, ♀, holotype (BMNH). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head and mesosoma, lateral view. C. Antenna. D. Mandible. E. Head, front view. F. Head and mesoscutum, dorsal view.

Fig. 30. Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo, 2014, ♀, holotype (BMNH). A. Propodeum. B. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. C. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. D. Fore and hind wings.