Adelurola amplidens (Fischer, 1966)

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Yari, Zahra, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Ehsan Rakhshani, & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2016, Review of species of the genus Adelurola Strand, 1928, with a key to species (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), ZooKeys 566, pp. 13-30 : 13-14

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Braconidae

Adelurola amplidens (Fischer, 1966) Fig. 2

Neocarpa amplidens Fischer 1966: 85.

Dapsilarthra amplidens : Shenefelt 1974: 987; Wharton et al. 2006: 325.

Adelurola amplidens : van Achterberg 1983: 5; Yu et al. 2012.

Material examined.

Iran: 2 females, Kermanshah Province, Kermanshah, 16.iv.2013, swept on Medicago sativa L. (Z. Sharifi coll.) (ZISP, RMNH); 1 male, Iran, Hormozgan Province, Harsin, 16.iv.2013, swept on Medicago sativa L. (S. Sharifi coll.) (ZISP). Iraq: 2 females, Baghdad, em. 10.iv.[19]80 and 13.iv.[19]80; L. Jabbar; on Beta vulgaris; ex Pegomyia hyoscyami ; Dapsilarthra amplidens ♀ det. Papp J. 1981" (RMNH).

Description.

Female.

Head entirely smooth; in dorsal view twice as wide as median length, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, with rounded temples behind eye. Eye in lateral view 1.5 times as high as wide and 0.8 times as wide as temple medially. POL 1.5 times OD; OOL 3.5 times OD. Face slightly punctate, with scattered short setae, without middle vertical protuberance in upper half, 1.9 times as wide as high; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus slightly curved ventrally, 1.9 times as wide as high. Mandible widened towards apex, 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth of mandible broadened towards subapex, longer than lower tooth; middle tooth wide basally and narrowed towards apex, rounded apically; lower tooth rounded apically. Antenna thick, 37-segmented. Scape 1.5 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 3.0 times as long as its apical width; second segment 4.4 times as long as its maximum width, about as long as first segment. Third flagellar segment 4.0 times as long as its maximum width. Penultimate segment 2.0 times and apical segment 4.0 times as long as their maximum widths, respectively.

Mesosoma 1.5 times as long as high (lateral view). Mesoscutum smooth, punctate in antero-dorsal area, with numerous scattered setae, about as long as maximum width. Notauli present, punctate, reaching half part of mesoscutum, not reaching with mesoscutal pit. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Scutellar sulcus rugose-striate; with median and lateral carinae. Sides of pronotum sculptured. Precoxal suture present, widely rugose-crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulated. Propodeum completely rugose-reticulate, with numerous scattered setae. Propodeal spiracle relatively small.

Wings. Length of fore wing 2.3 times its maximum width. Pterostigma cuneate. Marginal cell ending before apex of wing, 2.5 times as long as its maximum width. Vein 3-SR 2.0 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.8 times as long as vein 3-SR. Second submarginal cell 3.3 times as long as its maximum width. Vein cu-a postfurcal. Subdiscal cell closed, 3.8 times as long as its maximum width. Hind wing 4.6 times as long as its maximum width.

Legs. Hind femur 5.2 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia slightly widened towards apex, about 9.7 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 1.1 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 1.8 times as long as second segment.

Metasoma slightly compressed laterally. First tergite rugose-reticulate in apical half, without median carinae, slightly widened towards apex, 1.3 times as long as its apical width. Second metasomal tergite smooth. Ovipositor sheath 0.6 times as long as first tergite, 0.4 times as long as hind femur.

Colour. Body brown to dark brown. First metasomal tergite paler than second and third tergites, apical segments dark. Legs yellow, apical part of the tibia and hind tarsus darker than femur. Wings hyaline. Pterostigma brown.

Body length 3.9 mm; fore wing length 4.3 mm.

Male. Body length 3.5 mm; fore wing length 4.0 mm. Eye in lateral view 1.3 times as high as wide. Mandible 1.1 times as long as its maximum width. First flagellar segment 3.2 times as long as its apical width. Hind femur 4.8 times as long as its maximum width. Otherwise differs from female.

Differences of male types (according to original description: Fischer 1966). Fore wing length 4.4 mm. Mandible 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Antenna 38-39-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.0 times as long as its apical width. Mesoscutum about as long as its maximum width. Hind femur 4.5 times as long as its maximum width.

Comparative diagnosis.

This species is similar to Adelurola asiatica Telenga, 1935 and Adelurola florimela (Haliday, 1838). Adelurola amplidens differs from Adelurola asiatica in having the eye in lateral view 0.8 times as wide as temple medially (1.2 times in Adelurola asiatica ), marginal cell 2.5 times as long as its maximum width (3.8 times in Adelurola asiatica ), and precoxal suture not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron (reaching anterior and posterior margins in Adelurola asiatica ). Adelurola amplidens differs from Adelurola florimela in having the eye in lateral view 0.85 times as wide as temple medially (about 1.2 times in Adelurola florimela ), first metasomal tergite without median carinae (with median carinae in Adelurola florimela ), vein 3-SR 2.0 times as long as vein 2-SR (1.1-1.3 times in Adelurola florimela ), vein SR1 1.8 times as long as veins 3-SR (2.2-2.6 times in Adelurola florimela ), and marginal cell 2.5 times as long as its maximum width (2.8-3.2 times in Adelurola florimela ).

Distribution.

Iraq, Iran (new record).