Bathyaulax somaliensis (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 : 198-199

Bathyaulax somaliensis (Szépligeti 1914)

( Figures 15 , 106 ) Goniobracon somaliensis Szépligeti 1914a Iphiaulax somaliensis: Brues 1926

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( ZMHB): Goniobracon somaliensis Szépligeti 1914 . Ethiopia, Woreda, 10.6.1901, B. v. Erlanger.

Description

Females: Length of body 12 mm, of fore wing 12 mm, of ovipositor 9 mm.

Antennae with 70 flagellomeres (apex broken). Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:3.6:2.9. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.2:2.2:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.6. Sculpture on face granulate, on clypeus similar. Frons flat, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.1:1.0:2.7. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye52.0:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.8 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.1:3.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:2.0:1.1. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:2.4. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:5.8. Shape of vein 1-SR+M weakly S-curved. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.5 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:2.4:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.6 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus52.2:3.2:1.0. Hind basitarsus 4.8 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with posterior margin strigated. Second tergite 1.8 times wider than long; raised median area strigated, antero-medial triangular area raised and smooth. Third tergite 2.5 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, median and antero-lateral areas raised and smooth. Tergite four similar, but antero-lateral areas more narrow. Tergites five to seven smooth.

Orange-brown except for following which are black: apex of mandibles, antennae and vshaped area around stemmaticum. Wings fairly weakly darkened, with hyaline zones in fore wing below pterostigma, basally to veins 1-M and cu-a and around vein r-m. Apical quarter of pterostigma darkened. Hind wing darkened with faint hyaline areas around basal, subbasal and marginal cells.

Figures

Figures 14–18. Features of the second and third (14)–(17) and fifth and sixth (18) metasomal tergites of Bathyaulax species. (14) B. rufa, (15) B. somaliensis, (16) B. syraensis, (17) B. υaripennis, (18) B. kersteni.

Figures 106–109. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (106) B. somaliensis, wings. (107)–(109) B. striolatus, face, metasomal tergite 1 and metasomal tergites 2–3.