Asobara glabrisulcata Fischer, 2003

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2019, Revision of the Afrotropical Asobara Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), with the descriptions of twenty five new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 557, pp. 1-146 : 17-18

Asobara glabrisulcata Fischer, 2003

Figs 21–22

Asobara glabrisulcata Fischer, 2003: 78 .

Asobara glabrisulcata – Fischer 2007: 860 . — Yu et al. 2016.

Material examined

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; Southbroom, Natal; 3–4 Dec. 1963; E. Haeselbarth leg.; NHMW.

Paratype

SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♂; Mariepskop , Pilgrim’s Rest dist.; Transvaal; 12 Apr. 1964; E. Haeselbarth leg.; NHMW .

Redescription

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 2.0 mm, fore wing 2.4 mm, hind wing 1.5 mm. HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7 times as wide as long, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.8 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.4 times as wide as high. Clypeus 2.1 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.2 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth very wide; middle tooth rather narrow and long; lower tooth wide. Antennae 24-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.2 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 5.5 times and 3 rd segment 5.0 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.2 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) about as long as its maximum width.Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum.Mesoscutal pit present, oval. Prescutellar depression smooth, without lateral carinae, as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum sculptured, with pentagonal areola with smooth fields. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.2 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.8 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 7.1 times as long as vein r, 2.2 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 2.2 times as long as vein 3-SR.

LEGS. Hind femur 4.6 times as long as its maximum width.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 2.1 times as long as its apical width, weakly striate. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 3.1 times as long as 1 st tergite, as long as metasoma, 1.5 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, antennae and pterostigma brown reddish. Mandible and legs yellow. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured as 1 st– 3 rd metasomal tergites. Wings hyaline.

Male

Length. Body 1.9 mm, hind wing 1.2 mm. Antennae 23-segmented. Otherwise similar to female.

Comparative diagnosis

This species is similar to A. malawiana Fischer, 2007 and A. nigerrima Fischer, 2003 , but differs from them in having the mesoscutal pit oval (elongate in A. malawiana and A. nigerrima ), eye in lateral view 1.8 times as wide as temple medially (1.0 and 1.2 times in A. malawiana and A. nigerrima , respectively), 2 nd flagellar segment 5.5 times as long as its maximum width (4.0 and 4.5 times in A. malawiana and A. nigerrima , respectively), hind femur 4.6 times as long as its maximum width (5.0 times in A. malawiana and A. nigerrima ), 1 st metasomal tergite 2.1 times as long as its apical width (1.5 times in A. malawiana and A. nigerrima ), and visible part of ovipositor sheath 3.1 times as long as 1 st tergite (4.7 and 4.1 times in A. malawiana and A. nigerrima , respectively).

Distribution

South Africa ( Yu et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 21. Asobara glabrisulcata Fischer, 2003, A, C–F: ♀, holotype (NHMW); B: ♂ (NHMW). A–B. Habitus, lateral view. C. Head, lateral view. D. Mandible. E. Antenna. F. Head, front view.

Fig. 22. Asobara glabrisulcata Fischer, 2003, ♀, holotype (NHMW). A. Head, dorsal view. B. Mesosoma, lateral view. C. Mesoscutum, dorsal view. D. Propodeum. E. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. F. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. G. Fore and hind wings.