Bathyaulax pippolaensis, Kaartinen & Quicke, 2007

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 : 191-193

Bathyaulax pippolaensis sp. nov.

( Figures 96, 97 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( IRSNB): N.O. Afrika, Umfuda [? Somaliland], 20.6.1901, V. Erlanger.

Description

Female: Length of body 15 mm, of fore wing 13 mm, of ovipositor 11 mm.

Antennae with more than 101 (apex broken) flagellomeres. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:2.8:3.0. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.4:2.3:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.6. Sculpture on face granulate, clypeus similar. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye52.0:1.0:2.6. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.8:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.3:4.3. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.0:1.2. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.5. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:6.4. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.3 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:2.4:1.0. Fore basitarsus 5.0 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus51.9:2.8:1.0. Hind basitarsus 6.3 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.3 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with medial longitudinal groove, posterior margin striated. Second tergite 1.7 times wider than long; medial area raised and strigose. Antero-medial triangular area smooth, only weakly raised and wider than long. Third tergite 2.3 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and posterior margins, raised median area smooth, antero-lateral areas smooth and connected medially with a ridge. Tergites four and five with strigated transverse furrow on anterior margin. Subposterior margin also strigated in tergite four, but smooth in tergite five. Antero-lateral areas smooth in both tergites. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Yellow except for stemmaticum and ovipositor sheets which are black, and brown antennae. Fore wing with hyaline areas below pterostigma and weakly in basal cell. Hind wings broken.

Etymology

Named after the senior author’s friend, Emilia Pippola.

Figures

Figures 96–99. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (96, 97) B. pippolaensis, metasomal tergites 2–4 and metasomal tergites 4–6. (98, 99) B. ramosus, head and metasomal tergites 2–4.