Bathyaulax martinii ( Gribodo 1879 )

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 : 179-182

Bathyaulax martinii ( Gribodo 1879)

( Figures 80–83 ) Bracon martinii Gribodo 1879 Iphiaulax martinii: Schulz 1911 Goniobracon martinii: Szépligeti 1906 Bathyaulax atriceps ( Kriechbaumer 1894) syn. nov. Archibracon atriceps ( Kriechbaumer 1894) Iphiaulax atriceps Kriechbaumer 1894 Iphiaulax robustus Cameron 1906 Goniobracon robustus: Szépligeti 1906 Bathyaulax gutta ( Enderlein (1918) 1920) syn. nov. Goniobracon gutta Enderlein 1918 ) 1920 Bathyaulax pectinatus ( Enderlein (1918) 1920) syn. nov. Goniobracon pectinatus Enderlein (1918) 1920 Iphiaulax pectinatus: Brues 1926

Material examined

Holotypes: Male ( NCIP): Iphiaulax atriceps Kriechbaumer 1894 . Congo, Mussnco [?], 12.7.1892, Brauns .

Female (ZPAN): Bathyaulax pectinatus Enderlein 1919 . South Africa, Zoutpansberg, Transvaal [no date].

Female and lectotype male ( ZPAN): Bathyaulax gutta Enderlein 1919 . South Africa, Natal [no dates] .

Additional specimens examined

Algeria: 1 male, Oranie [no date] ( UZMC) ;

D. R. Congo: 1 female, 1 male, Tanganika , Mpala, VII–VIII-1953, H. Bomans ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Mayidi , 1942, P. van Eyen ( RMCA) ; 2 females, Gandajika , IV 1959 J. Decelle ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Lulua Sandoa, VII 1931 , G.F. Overlaet ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Lulua Sandoa, V 1932 , G.F. Overlaet ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Lulua Kapanga, X 1933 , G.F. Overlaet ( RMCA) ; 2 females, Bunia , 15.7.1934, J.V. Leroy ( RMCA) ; 2 females, Ituri , Nioka, VII 1934, J.V. Leroy ( RMCA) ; 2 females, Kibombo , X 1930, H.J. Brédo ( RMCA) ; 2 females, 1 male, Mahagi-Niarembe IX–XI 1935, C. Scops ( RMCA) ; 3 females, Nyangwe , IV–V 1918, R. Mayne ( RMCA) ; 1 male, Tanganika , Kigoma, IX 1918, R. Mayne ( RMCA) ; 2 females, Tanganika , Mpala, VII–VIII 1953, H. Bomans ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Mfungwe- Kajumbe , VI 1907, Sheffield ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Kayambo-Dikulwe , VI 1907, Sheffield ( RMCA) ; 1 female, 1 male, Plaine Semliki IV–X 1937, Hackers ( RMCA) ; 1 female, W. Ruwenzori, III 1937, Hackers ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Entre Irumu et Mombasa, X 1931, L. Lebrun ( RMCA) ; 1 female, N. Kivu, Kissenyi , II 1928, Seydel ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Haut- Luapula , Kansenia, 17.12.1919, Montpellier ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Sankuru , Gandajika, 1952, Francquen ( RMCA) ; 1 male, N. Kivu, Ibanda, 1935, Vandelannoite ( RMCA) ; 1 male, N. Kivu, Ulvira , 1962, R. Kiss ( RMCA) ; 1 male, Tanganyika-Moero , Nyunzu, I–II 1934, De Saeger ( RMCA) .

Eritrea: 1 female, Cheren [no date] ( HECO) .

Ethiopia: 1 female, Harrar, 1911, R.E. Turner ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Higo Samula, 30.10.1911, Stordy ( BMNH) .

Kenya: 1 male , Mombasa, Kilindini , 8.10.1905, C.A. Wiggins ( HECO); 1 female , Mombasa, 12– 13.2.1912, S.A. Neave ( BMNH); 1 female , Lake Jipe , 1959, van Someren ( BMNH); 1 female , 1? S. Mombasa, 27.8.1976, D. Quicke ( BMNH); 1 male , Voi River Valley , Pipeline Roads, VIII-1977, D. Quicke ( BMNH) .

Malaaei: 1 female, Nsanje, 10.9.1985, H. Hensen ( RNHL) ; 1 female, Fort Johnston , 1911, P. Rendal ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Nkhorongo mzuzu, Mzimba District, 24.3.2002, R.J. Murphy ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Mughese Forest Reserve , Chitipa Distr., 13.– 18.5.2004, R.J. Murphy ( BMNH) ; 1 male, Ruo River, Mt Mulanje, 4– 7.5.2002, R.J. Murphy ( BMNH) ; 2 females, Ruo River Valley, Mt Mulanje, 24.9– 7.10.2004, R.J. Murphy ( BMNH) .

Mozambique: 1 female, Del. B [ Delagoa Bay ], [no date] ( BMNH) .

Raeanda: 1 female, Rubona, 5.4.1963, G. Pierrard ( RMCA) ; 1 male, Nduga, terr. Nyanza, II 1953, P. Basilewsky ( RMCA) .

South Africa: 1 male, Durban , 1902, F. Muir ( HECO) ; 1 female, Lake Ngami , 1862, Castelnean ( HECO) ; 2 females, Natal, near Durban, Umbilo , 6– 7.10.1904, G.F. Leigh ( HECO) ; 1 female, Natal, near Durban, Sydenham , 21.8.1905, G.B. Longstaff ( HECO) ; 1 female, Natal, Durban , 16.12.1904, G.F. Leigh ( HECO) ; 1 female, Natal, Durban , 10.2.1905, G.F. Leigh ( HECO) ; 10 females, Natal , no date, ( HECO) ; 1 female, Pt Natal , no date ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Umhlanga, Ntl , 19.10.1941, L.S. Whicher (DH) ; 1 male, Caffraria , no date ( UZMC) ; 1 female, Grahamstown , 6.3.1954 ( RMCA) ; 1 female, Cape G.H. [?], [no date] ( BMNH) .

Sudan: 2 females, Didinga Distr. , Nagichot, XII-1925 – I-1926, Carpenter ( BMNH) .

Tanzania: 5 males, Mbeya, XII. 1962 ( CNCI) ; 1 female, Mt Meru , 1500m, VI.1962 ( CNCI) ; 1 male, Mkomazi Game Reserve, Peak of Maji Kununua , 7.12.1995, S. van Noort ( RNHL) ; 1 male, Kunduchi , VII-1973 ( RNHL) ; 1 male, no location or date ( MNH) ; 1 female, Zanzibar, Pemba Is. , 15.– 23.9.1924, H.J. Snell ( BMNH) ; 1 female, Njombe, Tanganyika , 1.7.1952, W. Peter ( BMNH) ; 1 female, N.W. Tanganika, 1910, Grauer ( NMW) ; 1 male, Bukoba – Usumbura , 1910, Grauer ( NMW) ; 1, female, 1 male, Ugano, Tanganyika-Terr., Matengo- Hochland , I-1936, Zerny ( NMW) ; 1 female, Ugano, Tanganyika-Terr., Matengo- Hochland , II-1936, Zerny ( NMW) ; 1 female, Ugano, Tanganyika-Terr., Matengo- Hochland , V-1936, Zerny ( NMW) ; 1 female, Ugano, Tanganyika-Terr., Matengo- Hochland , III-1936, Zerny ( NMW) ; 1 male, Litembo, Tanganyika-Terr., Matengo- Hochland , XII-1935, Zerny ( NMW) ; 1 female, East Usambara Mts., Amani , 1.9.1981, M. Stoltze & N. Scharff ( UZMC) ; 1, female, 1 male, West Usambara , no date ( NMW) .

Zambia: 1 male, 1 female, L. Bangweolo, Chishi Island , 24.6.1908, S.A. Neave ( HECO) [Note: these two specimens were mistaken for syntypes of a MS name by Grosvenor by Quicke (1980) now recognised as a nomen nudum, see Achterberg and O’Toole (1993)]; 1 female, N. Loangwa, Mt. Uluugu , 12.6.1905, S.A. Neave ( HECO) ; 1 female, Up. Kalungwisi Valley , 10.9.1908, S.A. Neave ( HECO) ; 1 female, Katanga , 5.7.1907, Neave ( BMNH) .

Zimbabaee: 2 females, 5, males, Melsetter, Gazaland, IX-X-1905, G. Marshall ( HECO) ; 1 female, Zambezi Valley , 20.5.– 29.7.1988, J. Weyrich ( BMNH) .

Unknoaen country: 1 female, 1921, J. Rothney ( HECO) .

Description

Female: Length of body 22 mm, of fore wing 19 mm, of ovipositor 13 mm.

Antennae with 123 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 3.0 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:4.1:2.6. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.1:2.1:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.9. Face punctulate, clypeus rugulose to rugose. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.0:1.3:3.6. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.1:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.4 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.7:3.0. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.3:1.2. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.9. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.6. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight, but angled close vein 1-M. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus53.0:2.7:1.0. Fore basitarsus 3.3 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus53.2:4.3:1.0. Hind basitarsus 3.3 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.4 times longer than wide; raised median area with medial longitudinal groove and posterior area strongly striated. Second tergite 2.0 times wider than long; median area striated, without raised area. Third tergite 2.3 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area longitudinally striated. Antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergite four similar but without conspicuous antero-lateral areas, and sculpture striated to reticulate. Tergite five smooth with strigated transverse furrow on anterior and posterior margins, tergites six to eight smooth.

Orange-brown or yellow except for the following which are black: head excluding labrum, apex of mandibles, antennae, middle telotarsi (not always entirely black), apical 5/ 6 of hind tibia, hind tarsi, ovipositor sheaths. Wings evenly darkened apically from veins 1- M and cu-a, with two hyaline zones in fore wing below pterostigma and around vein r-m. Apical third of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened postero-apically. The size and darkness of hyaline areas varies in both wings, but the pattern is similar.

Figures

Figures 79–83. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (79) B. marjae metasomal tergite 4. (80)–(83) B. martinii, head (lateral view) wings to show colour pattern variation, and metasomal tergites 2–3.