Doggerella landingi 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 : 7-8

Doggerella landingi Mahmood, Quicke & Papp sp. nov. ( Figs 5 a–f, 16a–f)

Male: Body length 2.15 mm, fore wing length 1.90 mm.

Head: Antenna 18 segmented, as long as head, mesosoma and first tergites of metasoma, terminal segment pointed, simple (not acuminate), 2.50 times longer than wide, penultimate segment 2.3 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 1.67 times tentorio-ocular distance. Face setose, transverse in frontal view, 1.4 times wider than high ( Figs 5 a, 16b), width of face 0.36 times width of head. Head entirely coriaceous ( Figs 5 b, 16c), in dorsal view sub-cubic, 1.6 times as broad as long, head extended considerably above to level of eyes. Temple rather rounded. Eye height almost equal to width of face, eye glabrous in dorsal view. Stemmaticum with round edges, posterior ocellar line: transverse diameter of posterior ocellus: shortest distance between posterior ocellus to eye=2.0:1.0:2.0.

Mesosoma: Almost entirely setose ( Figs 5 c–d, 16d), 1.3 times longer than maximally high. Pronotum smooth laterally. Mesoscutum setose. Notauli weakly but distinctly impressed on anterior 0.80 of mesoscutum. Mesopleural sulcus absent. Scutellar sulcus narrow and finely crenulate. Propodeum smooth, shiny, with sparsely distributed long setae.

Wings: Fore wing ( Fig. 16 e). Ratio of length of veins SR1:3-SR:r=4.0:1.75:1.0. Ratio of length of veins 2- SR:3-SR:r-m=1.5:1.75:1.0. Veins 2-M & 3-SR, 2.40 times & 1.6 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=1.6:1.0. Vein 3-CU1 slightly curved posteriorly. Hind wing. Evenly setose. Vein SC+R1 2.3 times length of 1r-m. Vein 1r-m 1.5 times length of R1.

Legs: Claw simple. Ratio of length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus=2.0:2.2:1.0. Hind femur (excluding trochantellus) 3.33 times longer than maximally deep, broadest at middle, densely setose. Hind tibia entirely setose. Hind basitarsus 5.0 times longer than maximally deep. Outer hind tibial spur reaching approximately 0.4 of distance along basitarsus.

Metasoma: Sparsely setose and foveolate ( Figs 5 e–f, 16f). First tergite sparsely setose, weakly crenulated. Second tergite entirely setose, finely and weakly crenulated, 1.6 times medially longer as third. Second and third tergites transverse, second tergite 1.7 times and third tergite 2.57 times as wide apically as long medially. Second metasomal suture narrow. Third tergite sparsely setose, crenulated. Fourth and fifth tergites sparsely setose, crenulated.

Coloration: Head mostly yellow brown except frons, vertex and temple dark brown. Mesosoma almost dark brown. Fore and mid leg yellow brown, hind leg mostly dark brown. Wings almost clear, venation and pterostigma brownish. Metasoma mostly yellow brown, lateral sides of tergite III, tergites IV, V and VI mostly dark brown. Sternites with black markings.

Etymology: Named after Christopher Landing a friend of DLJQ.

Material examined: Holotype: female, Ivory Coast, Korhogo, Komborodougou, 18–21.iii.1984, M. Matthews. Paratypes male, same data as holotype; male, Eritrea, Assab, 1907, HNHMB.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Doggerella landingi sp. n.; a, head, frontal aspect; b, head, dorsal aspect; c, mesosoma, dorsal aspect; d, propodeum dorsal aspect; e, metasoma from tergite 2, dorsal aspect; f, metasoma, lateral aspect.

FIGURE 16. Doggerella landingi sp. n.; a, habitus, lateral aspect; b, head, frontal aspect; c, head, dorsal aspect; d, head and mesosoma, lateral aspect; e, fore wing, distal part; f, metasoma from tergite 2, dorsal aspect.