Bathyaulax atripennis (Szépligeti 1914)

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 : 144-145

Bathyaulax atripennis (Szépligeti 1914)

( Figures 3 , 30, 31 ) Goniobracon atripennis Szépligeti 1914a Iphiaulax atripennis: Brues 1926

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( ZMHB): Goniobracon atripennis Szépligeti 1914a . Uganda, Ukereve , [no date] Conrads, S.V.

Description

Female: Length of body 20 mm, of fore wing 18 mm, of ovipositor 23 mm.

Antennae with 110 flagellomeres, but apex of antenna broken. Height of clypeus:intertentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.9:3.4. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.9. Face punctuated with hairs. Clypeus rugulose to papillate, with hairs. Frons depressed, very smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.5:1.0:3.6. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.5:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.3:3.8. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.0:1.4. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.3. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.3. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: length of fore femur:tibia:basitarsus52.2:2.6:1. Fore basitarsus 3.6 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus52.0:2.9:1.0. Hind basitarsus 5.0 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with weak anterior depression and strong ridges on posterior margin. Second tergite 1.8 times wider than long; strongly medially to submedially striated posterior to raised triangular area. Triangular area not smooth, but very faintly strigose. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; strongly striated, only smooth areas antero-laterally. Sculpture on tergites three and four similar. Tergite five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Orange-brown except for the following which are black: antenna, face, temples, frons, vertex and apex of mandibles and ovipositor sheaths. Wings dark brown, with a weak and narrow hyaline zone in fore wing. Basal two thirds of pterostigma whitish-yellow.

Figures

Figures 2–7. Features of the second and third metasomal tergites of Bathyaulax species. (2) B. appelatrix (3) B. atripennis, (4) B. bicolor, (5) B. delagoaensis, (6) B. fortisulcatus, (7) B. kυisti.

Figures 29–34. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (29) B. artoi, frons. (30)–(31) B. atripennis head, lateral view and wing. (32)–(34) B. atrox, face, head and mesosoma (lateral view) and metasomal tergites 2–3.