Bathyaulax bicolor Szépligeti 1906

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 : 146-148

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-CF03-FFAB-CBA5-FCB3A05DFDB3
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scientific name	Bathyaulax bicolor Szépligeti 1906
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Treatment

Bathyaulax bicolor Szépligeti 1906 View in CoL

( Figures 4 View Figures 2–7 , 35 View Figures 35–38 ) Iphiaulax bicolor: Brues 1926

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( MNH): Bathyaulax bicolor Szépligeti 1906 , Tanzania, Katona , Mto-ya- Kifaru, 1904.

Additional specimens examined

South Africa: 1 female, W. Gobabis (W55) 8mls, 11.iv.1972, Southern African Exp. B.M. 1972-l ( BMNH) ; 2 males, Rustenburg , 1911 W.L.D. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, Pretoria ,1911, W.L.D. ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Hluhluwe Game Reserve , 20.2.1997, M. Picker. ( BMNH) Kenya: 2 females, Tsavo east NP, nr. Voi Gate, VI 1977, D. Quicke. ( BMNH) ; 1 male, Voi River Valley , Pipeline roads, VIII 1977, D. Quicke. ( BMNH)

Description

Female: Length of body 16 mm, of fore wing 13 mm, of ovipositor 11 mm.

Antennae with 103 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere3.8 times longer than wide, not sharp.

Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.3:3.6. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.5:2.5:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Face medially granulate to laterally sparsely punctulate. Clypeus sparsely strigated with granulation. Frons weakly depressed, smooth. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.3:1.0:2.8.

Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.4:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.8 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:rm51.0:1.9:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.4. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:5.4. Vein 1-SR+M very weakly S-curved. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.4 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: length of fore femur:tibia:basitarsus51.8:2.0:1.0. Fore basitarsus 5.0 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus52.6:3.8:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.8 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.6 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with weak anterior depression and strigose to strigated on posterior half. Second tergite 2.5 times wider than long; strongly medially to submedially striated posterior to smooth raised triangular area. Third tergite 1.9 times wider than long; transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins strigated, transverse area between them smooth, longer medially than laterally. Smooth oval raised areas on lateral sides of tergite. Sculpture on tergites three and four is almost similar, tergite four lacks of lateral smooth areas. Tergites five to eight smooth.

Black except for abdomen which is red. Wings dark brown, with hyaline areas on fore wing cell 2a and below vein 2-SR+M. Basal two half of pterostigma whitish-yellow.