Sania masoni Sharkey 2009, sp. n.
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 masoni

description: <i>Sania masoni</i> Sharkey, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: DDC57A2D-20B9-4003-9B29-468B1100B7A4 <b>Holotype female.</b> Body Length. 4.8 mm &lt;4.7–5.2&gt;. Color. All black except: mandible and parts of all segments of fore- and midlegs reddish or yellowish brown, hind tibia reddish brown basally, laterotergite and sternum of metasomal tergum 1 whitish (Fig. 28) &lt;pale color, reddish or yellowish brown, varies from as in the holotype to completely absent, although laterotergite and sternum of metasomal tergum 1 always whitish&gt;. Forewing mostly weakly infuscate but less so anterobasally and at midlength, or clear basally, infuscate in apical half (Fig. 29E). Head. Number of flagellomeres 24 &lt;22–24&gt;. Scape not flared apicoanteriorly and lacking expanded apical surface (Figs. 3B, 29A, B). Antennal scrobe flat (Figs. 3B, 29B); variable, from mostly transverse-striate, to mostly smooth with punctures. Clypeus mostly smooth with weak punctures (Fig. 29A), without median tooth (Fig. 29A). Gena mostly smooth with weak punctures (Fig. 29A). Face mostly punctate with some weak rugae especially dorsally (Fig. 29A). Area between antennal scrobe and inner orbit of eye with protuberance (Fig. 29A), or without protuberance. Vertex with weak punctures (Fig. 28A). Posterior orbit of eye lacking distinct crenulate margin (Fig. 29B). Mesosoma. Middle lobe of scutum entirely smooth with punctures (Fig. 29C). Notauli entirely crenulate (Fig. 29C). Mesopleuron at least partly smooth with punctures (Figs. 3F, 28C). Sternaulus only present at midlength, or absent (Figs. 3F, 28C). Discrimen (median longitudinal ventral sulcus between mesopleura) crenulate. Metapleuron mostly rugose, lacking a large smooth lightly punctate area (Fig. 28C). Propodeum entirely rugose without smooth area posterolaterally (Fig. 29C). Metasoma. Median tergite 1 not distinctly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 29D); partly smooth with punctures especially posteriorly, with weak rugae or microsculpture anteriorly (Fig. 29D). Hypopygium less than 1/3 length of metasoma (Figs. 1B, 28B); not extending past apical tergum (Figs. 1B, 28B). Ovipositor barely exserted, much shorter than metasoma (Figs. 1B, 28B). Setae of ovipositor sheath not longer than 2× width of ovipositor sheath (Figs. 1B, 28B). <b>Male.</b> Antenna slightly sexually dimorphic with the female antennae shorter and tapering slightly more rapidly than those of male. Metasoma (Fig. 2E). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Scape not flared apicoanteriorly and lacking expanded apical surface (Figs. 3B, 29A, B); discrimen crenulate; mesosoma black (Fig. 28A, C). <b>Material Examined.</b> Holotype female: South Africa, Western Cape, 10 km S. Clanwilliam, Malaise on sandy hill, 32°13’39”S, 18°50’50”E, 140m, 5–25.X.2004, ME Irwin, FD Parker, M Hauser (SAMC) <b>Paratypes.</b> 3 females, 18 males, South Africa, Western Cape, 15km N Citrusdal, Koedoeskop Farm, Malaise across hillside trail, 32°29’18”S, 18°57’30”E, 220m, 5–25.X.2004, ME Irwin, FD Parker, SA-34 (SAMC, AEI, HIC, CNCI, INHS). <b>Distribution.</b> Distribution map is available at http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/ Misc/generalmapper.php?table= khoikhoiinae &amp;genus= Sania &amp;species=masoni. <b>Etymology.</b> Dedicated to the late W.R.M. (Bill) Mason for his many contributions to Hymenopterology including the discovery of the subfamily Khoikhoiinae.
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 343-344, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.108, http://zenodo.org/record/576519