Published September 25, 2019 | Version v1
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Asobara harrinsmithensis Peris-Felipo & Achterberg & Belokobylskij 2019, sp. nov.

  • 1. Bleichestrasse 15, Basel CH- 4058, Switzerland.
  • 2. Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  • 3. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, 199034, Russia. & Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, Warszawa 00 - 679, Poland.

Description

Asobara harrinsmithensis Peris-Felipo, sp. nov.

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Etymology

The name is from the geographical area ‘Harrinsmith’, the type locality of the species.

Material examined

Holotype SOUTH AFRICA • ♀; Orange Free State, Harrinsmith; 1–20 Mar. 1927; R.E. Turner leg.; BMNH 1927- 147.

Paratype SOUTH AFRICA • 1 ♀; same data as for holotype; BMNH.

Description

Female (holotype)

LENGTH. Body 1.7 mm, fore wing 1.8 mm, hind wing 1.3 mm.

HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7 times as wide as long, 1.6 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view about as high as wide and 2.0 times as wide as temple medially. POL 1.1 times OD; OOL 3.7 times OD. Face 1.4 times as wide as high, with sparse setae; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus 1.6 times as wide as high, slightly concave ventrally. Anterior tentorial pits short, far not reaching inner border of eye. Mandible 1.5 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth wide; middle tooth rather narrow and long; lower tooth wide. Antennae 21-segmented, 1.4 times as long as body. Scape 1.6 times as long as pedicel. First flagellar segment 3.9 times as long as its apical width, 0.5 times as long as 2 nd segment. Second flagellar segment 8.3 times, 3 rd segment 5.6 times, 4 th– 5 th segments 5.0 times, 6 th– 7 th segments 4.8 times, 8 th– 9 th segments 4.0 times, 10 th– 11 th segments 3.6 times, 12 th– 18 th segments 3.0 times and 19 th (apical segment) 3.5 times as long as its maximum width.

MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.4 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) 1.2 times as long as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate-oval. Prescutellar depression smooth, with only median carina, 1.1 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow weakly crenulate below. Propodeum weakly and sparsely sculptured, with several smooth paches, with large, wide and mainly smooth pentagonal areola; basolateral areas smooth, sparse rugose along carinae. Propodeal spiracle small, its diameter 0.3 times distance from spiracle to anterior margin of propodeum.

WINGS. Length of fore wing 3.0 times its maximum width. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.5 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 6.6 times as long as vein r, 2.0 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 2.4 times as long as vein 3-SR. Hind wing 6.6 times as long as its maximum width.

LEGS. Hind femur 5.7 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia weakly widened to apex, 10.2 times as long as its maximum subapical width, about as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 2.0 times as long as 2 nd segment.

METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.4 times as long as its apical width, smooth. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 5.7 times as long as 1 st tergite, 0.9 times as long as metasoma and 1.9 times as long as hind femur.

COLOUR. Body, mandible, antennae and pterostigma dark brown. Legs light brown. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured. First metasomal tergite paler than 2 nd and 3 rd tergites. Wings almost hyaline.

VARIATION. No variation observed.

Male

Unknown.

Comparative diagnosis

This new species is similar to A. subdentata (Granger, 1949), but differs from it in having the eye in lateral view 2.0 times as wide as temple medially (1.6 times in A. subdentata), 1 st flagellar segment 3.9 times as long as its maximum width (4.5 times in A. subdentata), 2 nd segment 8.3 times (5.8 times in A. subdentata), and 3 rd segment 6.7 times (3.3 times in A. subdentata), antennae without pale apical segments (with pale apical segments in A. subdentata), 2 nd submarginal cell narrowed basally (broadened basally in A. subdentata), and visible part of ovipositor sheath as long as metasoma in lateral view (0.3 times in A. subdentata).

Distribution

South Africa.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-146 in European Journal of Taxonomy 557 on pages 18-20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.557, http://zenodo.org/record/3467434

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Event date
1927-03-01
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Asobara
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
BMNH 1927- 147
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Peris-Felipo & Achterberg & Belokobylskij
Species
harrinsmithensis
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Verbatim event date
1927-03-01/20
Taxonomic concept label
Asobara harrinsmithensis Peris-Felipo, 2019

References

  • Granger C. 1949. Braconides de Madagascar. Memoires de l'Institut scientifique de Madagascar. (A) 2: 1 - 428.