Doggerella sulphurea Mahmood, Quicke & Papp

Mahmood, Khalid, Papp, Jeno & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2011, A new Afrotropical genus Doggerella gen. nov. of braconine wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with twelve new species, Zootaxa 2927, pp. 1-37 : 11

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.277970

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6187113

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038187B4-FFA3-FF9D-FAF7-387EAD01D5AD

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scientific name

Doggerella sulphurea Mahmood, Quicke & Papp
status

sp. nov.

Doggerella sulphurea Mahmood, Quicke & Papp sp. nov. ( Figs 8 View FIGURE 8 d–f, 9a–c, 21a–f)

Female: Body length 5.5 mm, fore wing length 4.2 mm.

Head: Antenna 32 segmented, as long as head, mesosoma and first tergite of metasoma, terminal segment pointed, simple (not acuminate), 1.3 times longer than wide, penultimate segment 1.2 times longer than wide, first flagellomere 1.1 and 1.2 times longer than second and third respectively. Scape 2.5 times as long as pedicel. Intertentorial distance 1.25 times tentorio-ocular distance. Face setose, quadrate in frontal view, as wide as high ( Figs 8 View FIGURE 8 d, 21b), width of face 0.54 times width of head. Head entirely coriaceous ( Figs 8 View FIGURE 8 e, 21c), cubic in dorsal view, 1.5 times as broad as long, head extended considerably above to level of eyes. Eye height almost equal to width of face, eye glabrous in dorsal view. Temple not strongly receding behind eye. Stemmaticum with round edges, posterior ocellar line: transverse diameter of posterior ocellus: shortest distance between posterior ocellus to eye=1.7:1.0:2.7.

Mesosoma: Almost entirely setose ( Fig. 21 View FIGURE 21 d), shiny, 1.5 times longer than maximally high. Pronotum smooth laterally. Mesoscutum setose. Notauli weakly but distinctly impressed on anterior 0.9 of mesoscutum. Mesopleural sulcus absent. Scutellar sulcus narrow and finely crenulate. Propodeum with central part shiny and pleural area coriaceous, with sparsely distributed long setae.

Wings: Fore wing ( Figs 8 View FIGURE 8 f, 21e). Ratio of length of veins SR1:3-SR:r=3.9:1.7:1.0. Ratio of length of veins 2- SR:3-SR:r-m=1.4:1.7:1.0. Veins 2-M & 3-SR, 2.80 times & 1.8 times as long as r-m, respectively. Vein 1-M straight. Vein 1-SR+M straight, distinctly less sclerotized near the origin of 1-SR. Vein cu-a interstitial to marginally post furcal. Veins 1-M and m-cu distinctly curving towards anterior wing margin. Ratio of length of veins 1- M:m-cu=2.3:1.0. Vein 3-CU1 curved posteriorly. Hind wing. Evenly setose. Vein SC+R1 1.8 times length of 1rm.Vein 1r-m 2.0 times length of R1.

Legs: Claw simple. Ratio of length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus=2.0:2.5:1.0. Hind femur (excluding trochantellus) 2.9 times longer than maximally deep, broadest at middle, rather flattened laterally, sparsely setose. Hind tibia entirely setose. Hind basitarsus 4.8 times longer than maximally deep. Outer hind tibial spur reaching approximately 0.42 of distance along basitarsus.

Metasoma: Sparsely setose and foveolate ( Figs 9 View FIGURE 9 a–c, 21f). First tergite sparsely setose, weakly crenulated. Second tergite entirely setose, finely and weakly crenulated, 1.2 times longer medially than third. Second and third tergites transverse, second tergite 2.0 times and third tergite 2.3 times as wide apically as long medially. Second metasomal suture narrow. Third tergite sparsely setose, crenulated. Fourth and fifth tergites sparsely setose, crenulated. Hypopygium large and protruding beyond apex of tergites. Ovipositor sheath 1.50 mm long, ovipositor pointed at apex without a distinct nodus. Lower valve of ovipositor with no teeth visible at x40 magnification.

Coloration: Face yellow brown with dark brown spot in centre. Temple and vertex dark brown, except yellow brown band between eye and antennae base, extending to almost posterior ocelli. Eyes brown. Mesosoma mostly yellow brown, with propleuron and mesonotum dark brown. Wings almost clear, venation and pterostigma brownish. All legs yellow brown. Metasoma yellow brown. Sternites with yellow brown markings.

Etymology: Named after yellow colour of the species

Material examined: Holotype: female, South Africa, Eastern Cape, Grahamstown, 10–15.iii.1971, Fred Gess, AEIG. Paratypes: 2 females, South Africa, Cape Province, Mossel Bay, xii.1921, R.E. Turner, BMNH.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Doggerella

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