Bathyaulax andreaei, Kaartinen & Quicke, 2007

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 : 135

Bathyaulax andreaei sp. nov.

( Figures 21–23 )

Material examined Holotype: Female ( BMNH). Kenya, N.F.D. (5 Northern Frontier District ), Kiunga, XI-

1945, J. Adamson.

Description

Female: Length of body 13 mm, of fore wing 12 mm, of ovipositor 7 mm.

Antennae with 110 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 2.4 times longer than wide.

Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.4:3.2. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.5:2.5:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:2.0. Sculpture on face medially punctate to laterally rugulose, with punctulation. Clypeus granulate. Frons flat, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.4:1.0:3.5. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.5:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.9 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.6:3.3. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.3:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.5. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:6.9. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly s- shaped. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.3:2.5:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.0 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.4:3.5:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.0 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.1 times longer than wide; raised median smooth with strigation on the posterior margin. Second tergite 2.3 times wider than long; medial area strigose. Third tergite 2.7 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area finely strigated, antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five similar to three, but in tergite four sculpture on median area finely strigated, and in five sparsely punctate. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Yellow except for the following which are black: small area around stemmaticum, apex of mandibles and ovipositor sheets. Antennae brown. Fore wings faintly darkened with hyaline areas as follows: the base of wings from veins 1-M and cu-a, below pterostigma and around vein r-m. Hind wing hyaline areas on basal and in the base of marginal cells. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened.

Etymology

Named after Dr. Andrew Polaszek.

Figures

Figures 21–24. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (21)–(23) B. andreaei, face, wing and metasomal tergites 2–5. (24) B. angolensis, metasomal tergites 2–4.