Asobara ugandensis Fischer, 2007

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 : 49-50

Asobara ugandensis Fischer, 2007

Figs 68–69

Asobara ugandensis Fischer 2007: 867 .

Asobara ugandensis – Yu et al. 2016 .

Material examined

Holotype

UGANDA • ♀; “CW Kasese Kilembe E Ruwenzori”; 23 Nov. 2001; M. Snizek leg.; OLML.

Redescription

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 4.6 mm, fore wing 5.0 mm, hind wing 3.3 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 2.0 times as wide as long, 1.3 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.1 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.6 times as wide as high. Clypeus 2.0 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.5 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide; middle tooth very wide and rather short; lower tooth wide. Antennae 24-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 6.3 times and 3 rd segment 4.8 times as long as their maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.2 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 1.3 times as long as its maximum width. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit absent. Prescutellar depression smooth, with only median carina, 1.1 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow smooth. Propodeum sculptured, with basolateral areas rugose. 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 longer than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 5.0 times as long as vein r and 1.8 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.6 times as long as vein 3-SR.

LEGS. Hind femur 6.0 times as long as its maximum width.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.1 times as long as its apical width, smooth. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 2.9 times as long as 1 st tergite, 0.9 times as long as metasoma and 1.5 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, antennae and pterostigma dark brown. Mandible and legs yellow. In dorsal view, head darker than mesoscutum. First–third metasomal tergites similarly coloured. Wings hyaline.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This species is similar to A. kawandensis sp. nov.; the differences between both species are described under the latter species.

Distribution

Uganda ( Yu et al. 2016).

Figures

Fig. 68. Asobara ugandensis Fischer, 2007, ♀, holotype (OLML). A. Habitus, lateral view. B. Head, lateral view. C. Mandible. D. Antenna. E. Head, front view. F. Head, dorsal view.

Fig. 69. Asobara ugandensis Fischer, 2007, ♀, holotype (OLML). A. Mesosoma, lateral view. B. Habitus, dorsal view. C. Propodeum. D. First metasomal tergite, dorsal view. E. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view. F. Fore wing.