Hormius sculpturatus Tobias, 1967

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 : 563-564

Hormius sculpturatus Tobias, 1967

( Figs 1 (localities 4, 10, 11), 6A–C, 10B)

Hormius sculpturatus Tobias, 1967: 386

Body length: 3.3–3.4mm (excluding ovipositor)

Coloration: head, mesoscutum, scutellum, mesopleuron reddish; metanotum, propodeum and mesosternum black; metasoma with T1 medially dark brown to black; rest of metasoma whitish with some parts pale brown in male and reddish-brown in female; scape, pedicel and basal half of flagellum reddish, rest of flagellum dark brown to black; legs straw yellow; wing hyaline with pale yellow pterostigma darkened apically; wing veins brownish; mandible pale yellow with black teeth.

Diagnosis. head smooth to weakly rugose, with fine transverse wrinkles (when seen from dorsal aspect); eye in dorsal view 1.85 × as long as temple; OOL: OD: POL= 12: 4.3: 5.5; malar space about as long as basal width of mandible; mesosoma 1.97 × as long as its height; mesoscutum (except posteriorly) and scutellum smooth and shiny; mesopleuron smooth and shiny except its anterior part finely punctate; propodeum coarsely rugose; antenna 21-segmented in female (23 in male), F1 0.68 × as long as F2, and 1.8 × its width apically; maxillary palp 0.85 × as long as head height; SR1 vein of fore wing not reaching wing apex, r 0.92 × as long as width of pterostigma; r: 3-SR: SRl = 18: 10: 79; hind wing: 2-SC+R: 1 r-m = 0.52; metasoma 2.6–3.2× as long as its maximum width, with long oval-shaped spiracular plates along lateral sides of T2–T6; T1 nearly as long as its apical width; ovipositor distinctly shorter than 0.5 × length of metasoma; ovipositor sheath slightly less than 0.14 × fore wing length, 1.50 × width of T1 apically and slightly more than 0.26–0.29 × metasomal length.

Material examined: 3♀, Sharm El Sheikh, Ras Mohammad, near Diver Training Rest (South Sinai) [27°51’ 14.512” N, 34°16’ 58.2” E] ( Fig. 1 , locality 10), 24.iv.2016, sweep net, leg. Y. Edmardash ; 1♀, Farafrah Oasis, Beir 5 [27°03.81” N, 27°55.47” E] ( Fig.1 , locality 4), 23.ii.2014, sweep net, on Medicago sativa , leg. Usama Abu El Ghiet ; 1♂, Sharm El Sheikh, Wadi Khoshb (South Sinai) [27°49’ 12.9” N, 34°16’ 7.001” E] ( Fig. 1 , locality 11, 23.iv.2016, yellow pain, leg. Y. Edmardash.

General distribution: Eastern Palaearctic ( Yu et al. 2016)

Variations: in some females, scape and pedicel of antenna dark reddish brown, flagellum clear red.

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).