Bathyaulax perspicax ( Szépligeti 1905 )

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 : 188-190

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-CF55-FFF1-CB98-FCC0A76FFCBE
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Bathyaulax perspicax ( Szépligeti 1905 )
status

Treatment

Bathyaulax perspicax ( Szépligeti 1905) View in CoL

( Figures 11 View Figures 8–13 , 20, 92, 94) Iphiaulax perspicax Szépligeti 1905 Goniobracon perspicax: Szépligeti 1906 Goniobracon seminiger Szépligeti 1914a syn. nov.

Material examined

Holotypes: Female ( MNH): Iphiaulax perspicax Szépligeti 1905 . Sierra Leone [no date or locality] .

Female (MNB): Goniobracon seminiger Szépligeti 1914a . Togo, Bismarckburg, Ueborg zur Begenzeit, 1.3.–15.3.91, R. Büttner S.

Additional specimens examined

D. R. Congo: 1 female, Kapiri , IX-1912, Agric. ( RMCA) .

Gabon: 1 female, Lastourville, 1933, G. Le Testu ( MNHN) .

Gambia: 1 male, Aboku, 10– 23.11.1983, K.M. Guichard ( BMNH) .

Senegal: 1 female, Ifan , Mont Nimba , Yeali, Ferilides Pentes 700–1000 m, 6.11.1959, M. Concamin et R. Roy. ( MNHN) ; 1 male, Casamance PNBC, 6.10.80, B. Sigwalt ( MNHN) .

Sierra Leone: 1 female, 1 male, Freetown, 1970–80, from Fourah Bay Coll ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Lumley, Freetown, Oct. 1981, D. Quicke ( BMNH) .

Description

Female: Length of body 20 mm, of fore wing 17 mm, of ovipositor 20 mm.

Antennae with 131 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere pointed, approximately 4.0 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.4:2.7. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.0:2.0:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.5. Sculpture on face minute, scarce punctulation. Clypeus rugulose. Frons straight and not depressed, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.0:1.0:3.8. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.6:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.8 times longer than maximally deep. Scutellar suture smooth.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0: 2.6: 2.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0: 2.8:1.0. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:3.3. Length of veins 1-CU1:2-CU15 1.0:5.9. Shape of vein 1-SR+M almost straight, curving slightly downwards to 1-M. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 2 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: length of fore femur:tibia:basitarsus52.1:2.4:1. Fore basitarsus 3.7 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus51.7:2.6:1. Hind basitarsus 7.7 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.6 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with weak ridges on posterior margin. Second tergite 1.6 times wider than long; strongly medially striated. Third tergite 1.8 times wider than long; weakly medially striated. Tergite four with smooth, slightly raised antero-lateral areas, raised median area longitudinally strigose to reticulate. Tergite five with strigated transverse furrow on anterior margin and smooth transverse furrow on subposterior margin. Raised median area sparsely punctulate. Tergite six with strigated transverse furrow on anterior margin. Tergite seven smooth. Sublateral areas on all tergites smooth.

Yellow except for the following which are black: antenna, temples and dorsal side of the head, forming conspicuous wedge towards occipital carina, apex of mandibles, three fourths of hind tibia, hind tarsi, metasomal tergites four to eight and ovipositor sheaths. Setae on apical half of ovipositor sheets silvery white. Apical two-thirds of wings dark brown with two hyaline zones in fore wing and one in hind wing.