Rhaconotinus (Rhaconotinus) menippus ( Nixon, 1939 )

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2021, Review of the braconid parasitoid subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, European Journal of Taxonomy 765 (1), pp. 1-143 : 102-104

Rhaconotinus (Rhaconotinus) menippus ( Nixon, 1939)

Figs 45–46

Rhaconotus menippus Nixon, 1939: 123 .

Rhaconotus decaryi Granger, 1949: 131 . syn. nov.

Rhaconotus menippus – Nixon 1941: 501. — Belokobylskij 2001b: 135. — Belokobylskij & Chen 2004: 355. — Yu et al. 2016.

Rhaconotus decaryi – Yu et al. 2016.

Rhaconotinus menippus — Belokobylskij & Zaldívar-Riverón 2021: 109 .

Material examined

Lectotype (designated here) MADAGASCAR • 1 ♀; “Madagascar, Berkily, V.1936, A Seyrig coll.”; MNHN.

Additional material

YEMEN • 1 ♀; “ Yemen (no 2910), Ta’izz, light trap, 5.i–2.ii.1998, A. van Harten, RMNH’98”; RMNH • 6 ♀♀; “ Yemen (no 2989), Ta’izz, light trap, 1–3.iv.1998, A.v. Harten & Ahmad Ahwad, RMNH’98”; RMNH • 1 ♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 3 ♀♀; “Yemen (no 3111), Ta’izz, light trap, 26–28.v.1998, A.v. Harten & Ahmad Ahwad, RMNH’98”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (3540), Ta’izz, 3–24.i.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & M. Mahyoub, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂; “Yemen, Ta’izz, viii.1999, light tr., no 4056, A.v. Harten & A. Awad, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (4057), Ta’izz, ix.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & A. Awad, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen, Ta’izz, xi.1999, light tr., no 4138, A.v. Harten & A. Awad, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (3901), Al Kowd , vii.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’00”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “Yemen (4055), Al Kowd , ix.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 118 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd , ii.2000, light tr., no 4431, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 5 ♀♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 19 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd , v–vi.2000, light-tr, no 4719, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd , vii.2000, light tr., no 4820, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 124 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd , xi.2000, light trap, no 4947/5290, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’01”; RMNH • 5 ♀♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 5 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd , i.2001, light tr., no. 5482, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 4 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd , ii.2001, light tr., no. 5484, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 6 ♀♀; “Yemen (5750), Al Kowd , 8–12.vii.2001, light trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “Yemen (6117), Al Kowd , 21–28.viii.2001, Light trap, A.v. Harten, S. Al Haruri, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 5 ♀♀; “Yemen (6141), Al Kowd , 16–20.viii.2001, light trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 3 ♀♀; “Yemen (8136), Al Kowd , ix.2003, light trap, A.v. Harten, S. Al Haruri, RMNH’03”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (6090), Al Kadan , x.2001, light trap, A.v. Harten, T. Abdul-Haq. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 3 ♀♀; “Yemen (7189), Al Kadan , v.2002, Light trap, A.v. Harten & A.R. Al Yarimi. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “Yemen (6158), Al Lahima , 17.ix–14.ii.2001, Malaise trap, A.v. Harten, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (5700), Ar Rujum , 9.iv–5.vi.2001, Mal. trap; A.v. Harten RMNH’02”; RMNH • 11 ♀♀; “Yemen (5404), Hammam ‘Ali, from coffee-berries (with Ceratitis capitata ?), 14.iii.2001, A.v. Harten, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 1 ♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP .

Distribution

Afrotropics: Benin, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda, * Yemen; Oriental: China, India, Malaysia, Thailand.

Remarks

Our examination of large amount of material of this species collected in a number of localities in Yemen revealed considerable body colour variation, from a pale reddish brown or yellowish brown colours at least on mesosoma and metasoma, to the complete body almost entirely black.

Figures

Fig. 45. Rhaconotinus (Rh.) menippus (Nixon, 1939), ♀ (RMNH). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head and basal segments of antenna, dorsal view. C. Apical segments of antenna. D. Head, lateral view. E. Head, front view. F. Hind leg. G. Mesosoma, dorsal view. H. Mesosoma, lateral view.

Fig. 46. Rhaconotinus (Rh.) menippus (Nixon, 1939), ♀ (RMNH). A. Wings. B. Propodeum and metasoma, dorsal view. C. Metasoma, lateral view.