Bathyaulax marjae, Kaartinen & Quicke, 2007

Kaartinen, Riikka & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2007, A revision of the parasitic wasp genus Bathyaulax Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, Journal of Natural History 41 (1 - 4), pp. 125-212 : 178-179

Bathyaulax marjae sp. nov.

( Figures 78 , 79 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female ( BMNH): Yemen, Sann’a, 8.5.1980, I.L.

Description

Female: Length of body 17 mm, of fore wing 15 mm, of ovipositor 16 mm.

Antennae with 108 flagellomeres, terminal flagellomere 3.0 times longer than wide. Height of clypeus:inter-tentorial distance:tentorio-ocular distance51.0:4.1:3.6. Width of face:width of head:height of eye51.1:2.0:1.0. Height of face:width of face51.0:1.7. Sculpture on face punctate with punctulation. Clypeus rugose. Frons depressed, smooth, with medial longitudal groove. POL:transverse diameter of posterior ocellus:shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye51.1:1.0:2.8. Length of eye in dorsal view:distance of occiput and posterior margin of eye51.6:1.0.

Mesosoma approximately 1.7 times longer than maximally deep.

Fore wing: length of veins r:3-SR:SR151.0:2.5:4.5. Length of veins 2-SR:3-SR:rm51.0:1.9:1.1. Length of veins m-cu:2-M51.0:3.0. Length of veins 1-CU1:2- CU151.0:6.1. Shape of vein 1-SR+M straight. Swelling in vein 3-CU1 1.2 times thicker than the other part of the vein.

Legs: Length of fore femur:tibia:tarsus52.0:2.2:1.0. Fore basitarsus 4.8 times longer than deep. Length of hind femur:tibia:tarsus51.9:3.0:1.0. Hind basitarsus 6.3 times longer than deep.

First metasomal tergite 1.5 times longer than wide; raised median area smooth with median longitudinal groove, posterior margin strigated. Second tergite 1.8 times wider than long; medial area raised and strigose. Antero-medial triangular area raised and smooth. Third tergite 2.2 times wider than long; with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, raised median area strigated, antero-lateral areas smooth. Tergites four and five with strigated transverse furrows on anterior and subposterior margins, antero-lateral areas smooth. Raised median area in tergite four reticulate to rugose, in tergite five smooth. Tergites six to eight smooth.

Yellow except for the following which are black: antenna, area around stemmaticum, apex of mandibles and ovipositor sheets. Apical third to quarter of pterostigma darkened.

Etymology

Named after the senior author’s mother, Marja Kaartinen.

Figures

Figures 75–78. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (75) B. kυisti, metasomal tergites 2–3. (76) B. larjuskini, metasomal tergites 2–3. (77) B. lucidus, metasomal tergites 2–3. (78) B. marjae, metasomal tergites 2–3.

Figures 79–83. Automontageș images of Bathyaulax species. (79) B. marjae metasomal tergite 4. (80)–(83) B. martinii, head (lateral view) wings to show colour pattern variation, and metasomal tergites 2–3.