Hormius propodealis ( Belokobylskij, 1989 )

Edmardash, Yusuf A., Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2020, First record of Hormiini Förster, 1863, and Macrocentrinae Förster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) for the fauna of Egypt, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4722 (6), pp. 555-570 : 563

Hormius propodealis ( Belokobylskij, 1989)

( Figs 1 (localities 1, 2), 5A, B, D, 9B, E)

Anhormius propodealis Belokobylskij, 1989: 376–392

Body length: 3.0 mm. (excluding ovipositor)

Coloration: head and mesoscutum dark yellow to orange, antenna entirely dark brown; propodeum and T1 darker (brownish); rest of metasoma, legs and ovipositor pale yellow; wing hyaline, with yellowish veins, veins 1- M and 1-SR+M very pale and hardly seen, pterostigma pale yellow with upper and lower margins dark, ovipositor sheath darker.

Diagnosis. Head smooth and shiny; eye in dorsal view 2.35 × as long as temple; OOL: OD: POL = 9:4: 7.5; malar space 0.85 × as long as basal width of mandible; antenna 17-segmented, densely setose, length of F1 0.65 × length of F2, and 1.7 × its width apically, with last segment pointed distally; maxillary palp 0.61 × as long as height of head; temple behind eye somewhat narrow and slightly contracted; mesosoma 1.51 × as long as its height; mesoscutum smooth, with deep linear notauli that are convergent posteriorly; propodeum with dense network of longitudinal and transverse carinae leading to the formation of eight (-seven) areolae, integument smooth in between; Radial vein of fore wing reaching wing apex, r 1.1 × as long as width of pterostigma, r: 3-SR: SRl = 23: 20: 84; metasoma 2.4 × as long as its maximum width; T1 smooth, somewhat coarser medioposteriorly, 2.59 × as long as its apical width; ovipositor sheath relatively thick, pointed apically, almost as long as or slightly shorter than T1 (when seen from lateral view), slightly less than 0.20 × as long as fore wing, 1.27× width of T1 apically and slightly more than 0.25 × as long as metasomal length, with the same density of long setae along its whole length.

Material examined: 1♀, Arish, El Abtal (North Sinai) [31°8’ 13.122” N, 33 49’ 57.312” E] (see Fig. 1 , locality 2), x.2013, sweep net, leg. A.M. Soliman ; 2♀, Aswan, Edfu Road [24°57’ 59.5” N, 32 52’ 0.012” E] ( Fig. 1 , locality 1), 21.iii.2014, sweep net, from sides of sugar cane fields, leg. Y. Edmardash.

General distribution: Australasian and Western Palaearctic species ( Yu et al. 2016; Belokobylskij, pers. comm.).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Egyptian localities for hormiine and macrocentrine specimens: 1, Aswan, Edfu Road; 2, El Arish, El Abtal (North Sinai); 3, El Manzala Lake, El Salam Canal (Daqahliya); 4, Farafra Oasis, Beir5; 5, Farafra Oasis, El Garad; 6, Farafra Oasis, Gelgam; 7, Hurghada, El Ghaba El Shagariya (Red Sea); 8, Ismailia, El-Tal El Kebeer; 9, Marsa Matrouh, Alifa; 10, Sharm El Sheikh, Ras Mohammad (South Sinai); 11, Sharm El Sheikh, Wadi Khoshb (South Sinai); 12, Sharm El Sheikh (Wadi Khreta) (South Sinai).