Asobara nigerrima 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 : 33-34

Asobara nigerrima Fischer, 2003

Fig. 45

Asobara nigerrima Fischer, 2003: 80 ; Yu et al. 2016.

Asobara nigerrima – Yu et al. 2016 .

Material examined

Holotype

SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; “ Coastal Province (CP), Umg. Stellenbosch, Schlüpffalle ”; Nov. 1986; Pajor leg.; NHMW.

Redescription

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 1.3 mm, fore wing 1.4 mm, hind wing 1.0 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.8 times as wide as long, 1.8 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.2 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.7 times as wide as high. Clypeus 2.0 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.7 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide; middle tooth narrow and long; lower tooth wide. Antennae 21-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 4.5 times and 3 rd segment 3.5 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.3 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 1.2 times as long as its maximum width. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression smooth, with lateral carinae, 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum weakly and sparsely sculptured, with several smooth patches, with large, wide and mainly smooth pentagonal areola; basolateral areas smooth, sparse rugose along carinae. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.3 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.7 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 6.8 times as long as vein r and 2.7 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.8 times as long as vein 3-SR.

LEGS. Hind femur 5.0 times as long as its maximum width.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.5 times as long as its apical width, weakly striate. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 4.1 times as long as 1 st tergite, about as long as metasoma, 2.0 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, mandible, antennae and pterostigma dark brown to black. Legs yellow. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured as 1 st– 3 rd metasomal tergites. Wings hyaline.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This species is similar to A. malawiana Fischer, 2007 ; the differences between both species are described under the latter species.

Distribution

South Africa ( Yu et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 45. Asobara nigerrima Fischer, 2003, ♀, holotype (NHMW). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head and mesosoma, lateral view (redrawn after Fischer 2003). C. Mesosoma, lateral view. D. Mesoscutum, dorsal view. E. Propodeum. F. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. G. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. H. Fore wing.