Serrundabracon rosalindae, Quicke, Donald L. J. & Butcher, Buntika A., 2015

Quicke, Donald L. J. & Butcher, Buntika A., 2015, A new species of the genus Serrundabracon van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Namibia, Zootaxa 4000 (1), pp. 141-146 : 143-144

Serrundabracon rosalindae sp. nov.

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Holotype female “ NAMIBIA, Roy’d Rest Camp, 58km NE Grootfontein. 1200m 19.229635S 18.496070E, 29– 30.XII.12 S. Murzin leg.”.

Length of body 8.1 mm, of fore wing 6.5 mm, and of antenna approximately 7 mm.

Description. Essentially as for S. maraisi as described by Braet (1999) and re-description (van Achterberg 2003) except for the characters given in the key above. The female holotype is slightly larger than the holotype of S. maraisai and the 2nd specimen recorded here, but since braconines (with some unrelated exceptions) are idiobiont ectoparasitoids, they typically show quite marked intraspecific size variation.

Etymology. The species is named as a lasting memorial to Rosalind Hardie, beloved wife of the junior author’s friend, Professor Jim Hardie.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Serrundabracon rosalindae sp. nov. holotype female. A, face, front view; B, head, dorsal view; C, head, mesosoma and fore legs, lateral view; D, metasoma, dorsal view, E, metasomal tergites 4 and 5, lateral view; F, distal half of ovipositor, dorsal view.