Genus Baldratia Kieffer, 1897

Baldratia is a Palaearctic genus with 38 species (Gagné & Jaschhof 2014). Larvae induce galls on stems and leaves of the family Chenopodiaceae mainly in Central Asia. Four species were previously described on the basis of material found in Egypt (Möhn 1969). The genus Baldratia is characterized by the following combination of morphological characters (Fedotova 1992; Dorchin & Freidberg 2008): the female ovipositor has a ventrally curved aculeus and a lateral plate that bears simple or split setae; adults generally have relatively long legs and one or two segmented palpi; apical antennal flagellomeres are often fused and the number of flagellomeres may vary within the same species and even in the same individual. Larvae have a bilobed spatula (Möhn 1969).

Fedotova (1992) mentioned that the aculeus was evenly covered with 2 rows of long apically bent setae. In the present study, it is very clear that the aculeus bears 3 rows of these setae in both B. salicorniae and the new species described below.