Bathyaulax lucidus ( Szépligeti 1911 )

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 : 177-178

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601121221
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A787FC-CF22-FF85-CBA5-FBB7A064FA20
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Bathyaulax lucidus ( Szépligeti 1911 )
status

Treatment

Bathyaulax lucidus ( Szépligeti 1911) View in CoL

( Figures 8 View Figures 8–13 , 77 View Figures 75–78 ) Hemibracon lucidus Szépligeti 1911 Goniobracon lucidus: Szépligeti 1914a Iphiaulax lucidus: Brues 1926 Bathyaulax nigriceps Enderlein 1920 syn. nov.

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( ZMHB): Hemibracon lucidus Szépligeti 1911 . Malawi, Nyassa-See, Langenburg, 3.10.– 4.11.1898, Fülleborn S.

Additional specimens examined

D. R. Congo: 1 male, Kafakumba , IV-1931, F.G. Overlaet, Bathyaulax nigriceps Enderlein , det. De Saeger VI-1942 ( RMCA) ; 1 male, Vallée Lukuga , XI-1911, Schwetz, Bathyaulax nigriceps Enderlein var. picistoma m., det. Fahringer ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Dilolo , IX-X-1933, H. De Saeger ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Eala , VII-1935, J. Ghesquiére ( RMCA) .

Kenya: 1 female, Tanganyika, Mpala, no date, Oberthür ( MNHN) .

Tanzania: 1 female, Lulanguru, XI-1917, G.D.H. Carpenter ( BMNH) ; 1 male, Lulanguru, XII-1917, G.D.H. Carpenter ( BMNH) .

Zimbabaaee: 1 female, Redcliff, IX-X-1964, S. Buclin ( RMCA) .

Description

Female: Length of body 21 mm, of fore wing 18 mm, of ovipositor 24 mm.

Antennae with 126 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 2.6 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.5:3.2. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:2.2. Face punctate with hairs, smooth triangle-shaped area on top of clypeus and a narrow smooth line continuing upwards from it between toruli. Frons smooth, sparsely punctulate, depressed on median area around longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.0:1.0:3.5. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.0:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.5 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.5:3.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.4:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.8. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.1. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.7 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:2.1:1.0. Fore basitarsus 5.0 times longer than deep. Two foretibial spurs. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:2.7:1.0. Hind basitarsus 2.8 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.6 times longer than wide; raised median area sometimes weakly medially longitudinally depressed, smooth. Posterior margin smooth, or with dense striation or strong scarce strigation. Second tergite 1.4 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area not raised or conspicuous. Third tergite 1.9 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area longitudinally strigose to reticulate rugose. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergites four and five similar. Tergites six and seven smooth.

Orange-brown except for apex of mandibles which are black. Wings fairly evenly weakly darkened, with two hyaline zones in fore wing below pterostigma and basally to veins 1-M and cu-a. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened with two hyaline areas around vein 1-M and costal and marginal cells.

Notes

The type of B. nigriceps could not be located [though it was seen by Quicke and van Achterberg (1990)]. However, the original description agrees well with the type of B. lucidus and the two specimens identified as nigriceps in the RMCA are also conspecific.