Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo 2014
Creators: name: Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
name: Belokobylskij, Sergey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Asobara
Asobara kenyaensis

description: Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo, 2014
Figs 29–30
Asobara kenyaensis Peris-Felipo et al., 2014a: 694.
Asobara kenyaensis – Yu et al. 2016.
Material examined
Holotype KENYA • ♀; Kakamega Forest; 20 Dec. 1970; B.M. 1972-211; A.E. Stubbs leg.; BMNH.
Paratypes KENYA • 6 ♀♀; same label as for holotype; BMNH • 2 ♀♀; same label as for holotype; ZISP.
Description
Female (holotype)
LENGTH. Body 2.6–2.8 mm, fore wing 3.1–3.3 mm, hind wing 2.1 mm.
HEAD. In dorsal view, 1.7–1.8 times as wide as long, 1.5 times as wide as mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.2 times as wide as temple medially. Face 1.5 times as wide as high. Clypeus 1.7 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.5 times as long as its maximum width. Upper tooth of mandible longer than lower tooth; middle tooth wide basally and narrowed towards apex, rounded apically; lower tooth rounded apically. Antennae 23–25-segmented. First flagellar segment 3.5 times as long as its apical width; 2 nd segment 7.5 times and 3 rd segment 6.6 times as long as their maximum width.
MESOSOMA. In lateral view 1.2–1.3 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (in dorsal view) about as long as its maximum width. Notauli complete, crenulate, reaching mesoscutal mid pit. Mesoscutal pit present, elongate. Prescutellar depression sculptured, 1.7 times as long as its maximum width. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, reaching anterior and posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulate. Propodeum sculptured, with long medio-longitudinal carina and small areola in posterior half, with apical half densely sculptured, with lateral tubercles. Propodeal spiracle relatively small.
WINGS. Marginal cell ending at apex of wing, 3.9 times as long as its maximum width. Vein r shorter than pterostigma width. Vein 3-SR 6.0 times as long as vein r and 2.5 times as long as vein 2-SR. Vein SR1 1.8 times as long as vein 3-SR.
LEGS. Hind femur 7.0 times as long as its maximum width.
METASOMA. First tergite weakly widened towards apex, 1.7 times as long as its apical width, completely sculptured. Visible part of ovipositor sheath 3.9 times as long as 1 st tergite, 1.4 times as long as metasoma, 1.5 times as long as hind femur.
COLOUR. Body dark brown. Legs brown. Wings hyaline. Pterostigma brown. Head and mesoscutum in dorsal view similarly coloured as 1 st– 3 rd metasomal tergites. Wings hyaline.
Male
Unknown.
Comparative diagnosis
This species is similar to A. kaipiriensis Fischer, 2007; the differences between both species are described under the latter species.
Distribution
Kenya (Peris-Felipo et al. 2014a).
description: 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 22-23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.557, http://zenodo.org/record/3467434