Phanerotoma flavivena Edmardash & Gadallah, 2019

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 flavivena Edmardash & Gadallah, 2019 Figs 96-98 , 99-108

Phanerotoma flavivena Edmardash & Gadallah, 2019: 359-364.

Type material.

Paratypes: 6♀: " Yemen: Al Kowd (3901), vii.1999, light trap, A. v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’00”; 3♀: Idem, viii.1999; 4♀: Idem, xii.1999; 5♀: Idem, i.2000; 4♀: Idem, ii.2000; 3♀: Idem, iii.2000; 5♀: Idem, iv.2000; 1♀: Idem, iv.2000; 13♀: Idem, v.-vi.2000; 1♀: Idem, vii.2000; 1♀: Idem, viii.2000; 7♀: Idem, xi.2000; 1♀: Idem, x.2000; 1♀: Idem, ii.2001; 1♀: Idem, iii.2001; 4 ♀: Idem, iv.2001; 3♀: Idem, 8-12.vii.2001; 4♀: Idem, 17-21.vii.2001; 1♀: Idem, 6-10.viii.2001; 4♀: Idem, 16-20.viii.2001; 4♀, 1♂: Idem, 27-31.vii.2001; 3♀: Idem, vii.-ix.2001; 1♂: Idem, 21-25.viii.2001; 2♀: Idem, 1-5.ix.2001; 1♀: Idem, i.-iii.2003; 6♀: Idem, Al Kowd, ix.2003; 1♀: "Yemen: Ta’izz (3066), light trap, xi.1999, A. van Harten & Ahmad Ahwad, RMNH’99”; 1♀: "Yemen: Ar Rujum (5700), 9.iv.-5.vi.2001, Mal. trap, A. v. Harten, RMNH’02”; 1♀: "Yemen: Al Kadan (7501), i.2003, light trap; A. v. Harten & T. Abdul-Haq, RMNH’03”; 2♀: "Yemen: Hamman’Ali (5404), from coffee-berries, 14.iii.2001, A. v. Harten, RMNH’02”.

Diagnosis.

Third tergite 1.8-2.1 × as long as second tergite, straight laterally, rather shiny and flattened, its posterior lamella more or less concave medio-apically (Fig. 101 ); third tergite of male similar but more convex in lateral view (Fig. 97 ); antenna of ♀ with 23 segments and apical segments non-moniliform (Fig. 103 ); inner tooth of mandible 0.3 × apical tooth (Fig. 104 ); ventrally clypeus without teeth and with narrow truncate lamella; vein r of fore wing 0.4-0.7 × as long as vein 3-SR; vein m-cu of fore wing interstitial or antefurcal; eye in dorsal view 1.7-2.5 × as long as temple and 1.6-1.9 × in lateral view; temple smooth and shiny face medially smooth or nearly so; temple distinctly convex; scutellar sulcus narrow; parastigma, vein 1-M of fore wing, pterostigma entirely yellow; ovipositor sheath narrow, needle-shaped (Fig. 102 ); hypopygium acute, without spine apically and with short apical triangle bent upwards. If vein 1-R1 of fore wing approx. ½ as long as pterostigma, cf. P. cyrenaica Masi, 1932, from N. Africa. The male is very similar to female (Figs 97 , 98 ); hind femur rather widened (Fig. 97 ), third tergite more convex in lateral view than of female (Fig. 97 ), vein 1-R1 of fore wing brown and antennal segments slenderer.

Variations.

Length of fore wing of ♀ 3.4-4.2 (of ♂ 3.2) mm; vein 2-SR of fore wing straight or weakly curved; lateral lamella of third tergite concave medio-apically, rarely only slightly sinuate; third tergite of ♂ 1.9-2.1 × longer than second tergite.

Biology.

Unknown, but two females have been reared from a lepidopterous host in coffee-berries.

Distribution.

Egypt, Yemen.

Figures

Figures 96 - 98. Phanerotoma flavivena Edmardash & Gadallah, paratype, ♀ (but 97, 98 of ♂ paratype), Yemen 96 habitus, lateral 97 metasoma and hind femur lateral 98 third metasomal tergite dorsal.

Figures 99 - 108. Phanerotoma flavivena Edmardash & Gadallah, ♀, paratype, Yemen 99 wings 100 mesosoma dorsal 101 first-third metasomal tergites dorsal 102 metasoma lateral 103 apical third of antenna lateral 104 mandible ventral 105 head dorsal 106 head anterior 107 head lateral 108 antenna lateral.