Tiphia bahattini, Yildirim & B, 2009

Yildirim, E. & B, M., 2009, Tiphiidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of Turkey, Linzer biologische Beiträge 41 (2), pp. 2051-2065 : 2056-2057

Tiphia bahattini nov.sp.

H o l o t y p e: ♀, Turkey, Diyarbakır, Silvan, 825 m, 17.IV.1995, leg. E. Yıldırım (deposed at EMET).

P a r a t y p e s: ♀, 333, Turkey, Diyarbakır, Silvan, 825 m, 17.IV.1995, ♀, 233, 15.IV.1995, 3, leg. E. Yıldırım (3 deposed at EMET) (1 deposed at MZUF).

In the following descriptions the content within brackets refers to T. persica .

F e m a l e (Holotype): Figs 1-4 . Measurements: body length = 11 mm. Black, brown and light brown. Wings hyaline.

Brown: mandibles, scape and pedicel, LaSt 2, semitransparent tegula, legs, 1 st metamerus, distal areas of 2 nd to 5 th metameri. Light brown are flagellum, palpi, veins and pterostigma, apical half of 6 th tergum.

Genal bridge sunken realtively to the lower genal areas (at the same level). Ratio between lenght of last three final maxillary palpomeri and basal three ones about 1.4 (1.5). Pronotal disk without any carinated keel along its fore border; blunt keel just near its anteroventral corner. Scutellum with ratio width/height about 2.3 (1.8). Postscutellum: ratio anterior width/median height about 2.5 (2.2). Metepimeron finely shagreened. Metasternum without prominent apical ventral lobes (prominent). Propodeal disk with a sub rectangular areola, laterally delimited by flattened ribs and with only basally expressed median one (complete); lateral areas finely wrinkled. Pterostigma very small. Sensorial area on the hind femur gutta-like. The strong groove on the hind basitarsus is just a bit longer than half the element, the ratio length of the element/length of the groove is 1.9 (1.4). Ratio apical width/longitudinal length of the 1 st metamerus is about 1.65 (1.50).

Punctuation and sculptures are less marked than in T. persica giving it a mat appearance. Punctuation very fine and dense around toruli and median clypeus, sparser with interspaces much wider than their diameter on the remainder of the head. Variable on the anterior half of pronotal disk. Irregular and sparse punctuation on Scutum, Scutellum and postscutellum. Mesepisternum with bipunctate outer surface (simple). Propodeal disk: smooth areola surface; smooth lateral area with very fine and sparse pits only along areola. Very fine sparse pits on metameri. 6 th tergum with rough punctuation on its basal half, with few sparse pits and without any sculpture on its apical half (sculptured with microreticulation). Whitish hair throughout.

Variability. The female paratype show an almost completely brown coloured body.

M a l e: Figs 6-12 . Measurements: body length = 8,5.

Black, brown.

Brown: shadows on mandibles and clypeus, veins, most of the legs.

Distinctly prominent fore profile of the head in dorsal aspect (almost straight). Last flagellomerus 1.6 times longer than penultimate (1.4). None median ridge between toruli and median ocellus (present). Apical edge of the pronotal disk regularly arched (backward receding in the middle) and the ratio width/median length about 3 (3.4) in dorsal aspect. Ventral surface of metasternum completely roughly punctured (smooth and channelled basally); its lobes sub triangular (well prominent parallel sided lobes, Fig. 13 ). Sensorial area on hind femur elongated with a very narrow tip (ellissoid). 1 st metamerus with a ratio basal width/median length about 1.25 (1.05) in ventral aspect. Process on lateral 5 th sternum very close to the apical border and mostly straight (regularly rounded, Fig. 14 ).

General habitus, punctuation and hair like in the males of T. persica , apart the much less punctuated propodeal disk.

Variability. Not detectable.

N o t e: The female differs from T. persica also in different shape of clypeus and temple extension in frontal aspect. The male differs from male T. persica also in the more prominent temple in frontal aspect and different shape of the genitalia, especially about gonostylus.

D e r i v a t i o n o m i n i s: This species is dedicated to Bahattin Yıldırım who is father of Dr. Erol Yıldırım.

Figures

Figs 1-5: Tiphia bahattini nov.sp. Holotypus ♀: (1) head, frontal aspect; (2) mesosoma, dorsal aspect; (3) metasternum; (4) hindfemur. Tiphia persica Lectotypus ♀: (5) metasternum. (1, 3, 4, 5: scale bar = 1mm; 2: Scale bar = 2mm).

Figs 6-14: Tiphia bahattini nov.sp. Paratypus 3: (6) head and pronotum, dorsal aspect; (7) head, frontal spect; (8) metasternum; (9) sensorial area of hindfemur; (10) 5 th sternum, particular; (11) gonostylus and volsella, ¾ inner lateral aspect; (12) Gonostylus and volsella, inner lateral aspect. Tiphia persica 3: (13) metasternum5 th; (14) sternum, particular. (6, 7, 8, 13: scale bar = 1 mm) (9, 10, 11, 12, 14: scale bar = 0.5 mm).