Sania henryi Mason 1983
Creators: name: Sharkey, Michael
name: van Noort, Simon
name: Whitfield, James
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Sania
Sania henryi

description: <i>Sania henryi</i> Mason, 1983 <b>Holotype male.</b> Body Length. 4.4 mm. Color. Mottled black and brown except laterotergite 1 and margins of most metasomal sclerites whitish, otherwise metasoma mostly brown (Figs. 22A, B). Forewing entirely infuscate (Fig. 22). Head. Number of flagellomeres 24 &lt;20–28&gt;. Scape not flared apicoanteriorly and lacking expanded apical surface (Fig. 23B). Antennal scrobe shallow (Fig. 23B); mostly smooth lacking punctures and microsetae, with very weak irregular sculpture laterally. Clypeus mostly smooth with weak punctures (Fig. 23A); without median tooth (Fig. 23A). Gena with weak rugose microsculpture (Fig. 23A, B). Face mostly punctate with some weak rugae especially dorsally (Fig. 23A). Area between antennal scrobe and inner orbit of eye without protuberance (Fig. 23A). Vertex with weak punctures (Fig. 22A). Posterior orbit of eye with distinct crenulate margin (Figs. 22C, 23B), or lacking distinct crenulate margin. Mesosoma. Middle lobe of scutum entirely smooth with punctures (Fig. 23C). Notauli entirely crenulate (Fig. 23C). Mesopleuron at least partly smooth with punctures (Fig. 22C). Sternaulus long, occupying most of length of mesopleuron (Fig. 22C). Discrimen (median longitudinal ventral sulcus between mesopleura) crenulate. Metapleuron mostly rugose, lacking a large smooth lightly punctate area (Fig. 22C), or partly rugose but with a large smooth lightly punctate area (Fig. 22C). Propodeum entirely rugose without smooth area posterolaterally (Fig. 23D). Metasoma. Median tergite 1 distinctly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 23D); completely rugose (Fig. 23D). <b>Female.</b> Unknown. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Scape not flared apicoanteriorly and lacking expanded apical surface (Fig. 23B); discrimen crenulate; mesosoma partly or entirely brown (Fig. 22C). <b>Material Examined.</b> Holotype male: South Africa, Garies, Cape, 30°33’35.77”S, 17°59’24.91”E, 223m, 23.IX.1970, H. &amp; M. Townes (AEI). <b>Distribution.</b> Distribution map is available at http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/ Misc/generalmapper.php?table= khoikhoiinae &amp;genus= Sania &amp;species=henryi. Together with the single specimen of <i>Khoikhoia townesi</i> (Eastern Cape Province) these are the only two representatives of Khoikhoiinae collected outside of the Western Cape Province. <i>Sania henryi</i> is the only Khoikhoiinae so far recorded as being associated with the Succulent Karoo biome, a biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al. 2000). We expect that further undiscovered species will be collected in this habitat. <b>Etymology.</b> Not mentioned in Mason (1983) but clearly a patronym for Henry Townes.
description: Published as part of <i>Sharkey, Michael, van Noort, Simon &amp; Whitfield, James, 2009, Revision of Khoikhoiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), pp. 299-348 in ZooKeys 20 (20)</i> on pages 334-336, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.108, http://zenodo.org/record/576519
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