Phanerotoma robusta Zettel, 1988

Achterberg, Cornelis van, 2021, The tribe Phanerotomini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Cheloninae) of the Arabian Peninsula, with special reference to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, ZooKeys 1014, pp. 1-118 : 1

Phanerotoma robusta Zettel, 1988 Figs 305 , 306-316 , 317 , 319

Phanerotoma robusta Zettel, 1988: 199-201.

Phanerotoma (Phanerotoma) robusta ; van Achterberg, 1990: 57; Edmardash and Gadallah 2019: 369-372.

Additional material.

1♀: " United Arab Emirates, al-Ajban (6424-6425), light tr[ap], 26.ii.-27.iii.2006, 24°36'N, 55°01'E, A. v. Harten, RMNH’07”.

Comparative diagnosis.

Similar to P. ocularis Kohl, but unique because of the long bristles on the fore tarsus (Fig. 319 ), comparatively small head (Fig. 317 ) and its large size; inner tooth of mandible 0.2 × as long as apical tooth (Fig. 311 ); length of malar space 0.7 × basal width of mandible; legs elongate; width of head 0.8-0.9 × maximum width of mesoscutum (Fig. 317 ); hypopygium with small apical up slanted triangle (Fig. 309 ); length of fore wing 5.4-5.5 mm and of body 7.0-7.3 mm; wing membrane hyaline.

Distribution.

Kuwait (holotype; NMW), Egypt (Sinai), *United Arab Emirates. Zettel (1988) reported the holotype to be from Dasmat (Saudi Arabia), however Dasma(t) is situated in Kuwait.

Biology.

Unknown.

Figures

Figure 305. Phanerotoma robusta Zettel, ♀, UAE, habitus, lateral.

Figures 306 - 316. Phanerotoma robusta Zettel, ♀, UAE 306 fore wing 307 mesosoma dorsal 308 first-third metasomal tergites dorsal 309 metasoma lateral 310 hind femur and tibia lateral 311 mandible ventral 312 head dorsal 313 head anterior 314 head lateral 315 antenna lateral 316 apical half of antenna lateral.

Figures 317 - 320. 317, 319 Phanerotoma robusta Zettel, ♀, UAE 318, 320 Phanerotoma ocularis Kohl, ♀, Yemen 317, 318 head and mesosoma dorsal 319, 320 fore tarsus lateral.