Bathyaulax hirticeps ( Cameron 1909 )

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 : 165

Bathyaulax hirticeps ( Cameron 1909)

( Figures 61, 62 ) Iphiaulax hirticeps Cameron 1909 Iphiaulax krebsii Cameron 1909 syn. nov. Bathyaulax krebsii ( Cameron 1909) Goniobracon krebsi [!]: Fahringer 1935

Material examined

Holotypes: Female ( ZMHB): Iphiaulax hirticeps Cameron 1909 , South Africa, Capland [no date], Krebs S .

Female: (ZMHB): Iphiaulax krebsii Cameron 1909 , South Africa, Capland [no date], Krebs S.

Description

Female: Length of body 15 mm, of fore wing 12 mm.

Antennae with 85 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere 3.5 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:5.0:6.8. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.3:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.8. Sculpture on face punctate. Clypeus rugose. Frons depressed and smooth, with a medial longitudinal carinae. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.1:1.0:3.6. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.5:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.6 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:3.9:5.8. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.4:1.3. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.5. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:4.2. 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:basitarsus52.0:2.1:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.4 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:basitarsus52.1:3.2:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.1 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.4 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with medial longitudinal groove, posterior half strongly strigated on. Second tergite 2.2 times wider than long; strongly medially rugose to reticulate. Antero-medial triangular area raised and also strongly sculptured, anteriorly smooth. Third tergite 2.4 times wider than long; transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins strigated, raised medial area rugose. Antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five with anterior and subposterior strigated furrows, raised median areas rugose, antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Black to dark brown except for abdomen which is red. Head with reddish-brown lines around eyes. Wings dark brown, with hyaline areas on fore wing below pterostigma and weakly around vein r-m. Apical half of pterostigma darkened.

Figures

Figures 61–65. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (61, 62) B. hirticeps, face and metasomal tergites 2– 3. (63)–(65) B. ikonenie, head (lateral view), wing and metasomal tergites 2–3.