Rhaconotinus (Rhaconotinus) menippus
Creators: name: Belokobylskij, Sergey A.
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Rhaconotinus
Rhaconotinus menippus

description: Rhaconotinus (Rhaconotinus) menippus (Nixon, 1939)
Figs 45–46
Rhaconotus menippus Nixon, 1939: 123.
Rhaconotus decaryi Granger, 1949: 131. syn. nov.
Rhaconotus menippus – Nixon 1941: 501. — Belokobylskij 2001b: 135. — Belokobylskij & Chen 2004: 355. — Yu et al. 2016.
Rhaconotus decaryi – Yu et al. 2016.
Rhaconotinus menippus — Belokobylskij & Zaldívar-Riverón 2021: 109.
Material examined
Lectotype (designated here) MADAGASCAR • 1 ♀; “Madagascar, Berkily, V.1936, A Seyrig coll.”; MNHN.
Additional material
YEMEN • 1 ♀; “ Yemen (no 2910), Ta’izz, light trap, 5.i–2.ii.1998, A. van Harten, RMNH’98”; RMNH • 6 ♀♀; “ Yemen (no 2989), Ta’izz, light trap, 1–3.iv.1998, A.v. Harten & Ahmad Ahwad, RMNH’98”; RMNH • 1 ♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 3 ♀♀; “Yemen (no 3111), Ta’izz, light trap, 26–28.v.1998, A.v. Harten & Ahmad Ahwad, RMNH’98”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (3540), Ta’izz, 3–24.i.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & M. Mahyoub, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂; “Yemen, Ta’izz, viii.1999, light tr., no 4056, A.v. Harten & A. Awad, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (4057), Ta’izz, ix.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & A. Awad, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen, Ta’izz, xi.1999, light tr., no 4138, A.v. Harten & A. Awad, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (3901), Al Kowd, vii.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’00”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “Yemen (4055), Al Kowd, ix.1999, light-trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 118 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd, ii.2000, light tr., no 4431, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 5 ♀♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 19 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd, v–vi.2000, light-tr, no 4719, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd, vii.2000, light tr., no 4820, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 124 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd, xi.2000, light trap, no 4947/5290, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’01”; RMNH • 5 ♀♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 5 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd, i.2001, light tr., no. 5482, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 4 ♀♀; “Yemen, Al Kowd, ii.2001, light tr., no. 5484, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 6 ♀♀; “Yemen (5750), Al Kowd, 8–12.vii.2001, light trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “Yemen (6117), Al Kowd, 21–28.viii.2001, Light trap, A.v. Harten, S. Al Haruri, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 5 ♀♀; “Yemen (6141), Al Kowd, 16–20.viii.2001, light trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 3 ♀♀; “Yemen (8136), Al Kowd, ix.2003, light trap, A.v. Harten, S. Al Haruri, RMNH’03”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (6090), Al Kadan, x.2001, light trap, A.v. Harten, T. Abdul-Haq. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 3 ♀♀; “Yemen (7189), Al Kadan, v.2002, Light trap, A.v. Harten & A.R. Al Yarimi. RMNH’02”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “Yemen (6158), Al Lahima, 17.ix–14.ii.2001, Malaise trap, A.v. Harten, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (5700), Ar Rujum, 9.iv–5.vi.2001, Mal. trap; A.v. Harten RMNH’02”; RMNH • 11 ♀♀; “Yemen (5404), Hammam ‘Ali, from coffee-berries (with Ceratitis capitata?), 14.iii.2001, A.v. Harten, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 1 ♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP.
Distribution
Afrotropics: Benin, Madagascar, South Africa, Uganda, * Yemen; Oriental: China, India, Malaysia, Thailand.
Remarks
Our examination of large amount of material of this species collected in a number of localities in Yemen revealed considerable body colour variation, from a pale reddish brown or yellowish brown colours at least on mesosoma and metasoma, to the complete body almost entirely black.
description: Published as part of Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Achterberg, Cornelis Van, 2021, Review of the braconid parasitoid subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, pp. 1-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 765 (1) on pages 102-104, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.765.1479, http://zenodo.org/record/5514673