Sania masneri 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 masneri

description: <i>Sania masneri</i> Sharkey, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 49E6B48F-F40B-479C-9704-8EDFAE402EB9 <b>Holotype female.</b> Body Length. 5.2 mm &lt;male 4.2. mm&gt;. Color. Mottled black and brown except laterotergite 1 and margins of most metasomal sclerites whitish, otherwise metasoma mostly brown (Fig. 26). Forewing clear basally, infuscate in apical half (Fig. 27E). Head. Number of flagellomeres 28 &lt;male also 28&gt;. Scape flared apicoanteriorly with expanded apical surface (Fig. 27B). Antennal scrobe shallow (Fig. 27B); smooth medially, transversely striate laterally. Clypeus mostly smooth with weak punctures (Fig. 27A); without median tooth (Fig. 27A). Gena mostly smooth with weak punctures (Fig. 27A). Face mostly punctate with some weak rugae especially dorsally (Fig. 27A). Area between antennal scrobe and inner orbit of eye with protuberance, or without protuberance. Vertex with weak punctures (Fig. 26A). Posterior orbit of eye with distinct crenulate margin (Fig. 27B), or lacking distinct crenulate margin. Mesosoma. Middle lobe of scutum entirely smooth with punctures (Fig. 27C). Notauli entirely crenulate (Fig. 27C). Mesopleuron at least partly smooth with punctures (Fig. 26C). Sternaulus long occupying most of length of mesopleuron, or only present at midlength, or absent or difficult to discern due to dense sculpture of mesopleuron (Fig. 26C). Discrimen (median longitudinal ventral sulcus between mesopleura) crenulate. Metapleuron mostly rugose, lacking a large smooth lightly punctate area (Fig. 26C). Propodeum entirely rugose without smooth area posterolaterally (Fig. 27C). Metasoma. Median tergite 1 distinctly narrowed posteriorly (Fig. 27C); partly smooth with punctures especially posteriorly, with weak rugae or microsculpture anteriorly (Fig. 27C). Hypopygium subequal to half length of metasoma (Figs. 1D, 26B); extending past apical tergum (Figs. 1D, 26B). Ovipositor more than half as long as metasoma (Figs. 1D, 26B). Setae of ovipositor sheath as much as 3 or 4× as long as width of sheath (Figs. 1D, 26B). <b>Male.</b> Antenna highly sexually dimorphic with the female antennae shorter and tapering much more rapidly than those of male. Genitalia large (Fig. 2D). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Scape flared apicoanteriorly with expanded apical surface (Fig. 27B); median tergite 1 distinctly narrowed posteriorly and smooth with punctures posterolaterally (Fig. 27D). <b>Material Examined.</b> Holotype female: South Africa, Western Cape, 10 km S. Clanwilliam, Malaise on sandy hill, 32°13’39”S, 18°5:0’50”E, 140m, 5–25.X.2004, ME Irwin, FD Parker, M Hauser (SAMC) <b>Paratypes.</b> 2 males, same data as holotype (SAMC, HIC). <b>Distribution.</b> Distribution map is available at http://sharkeylab.org/sharkeylab/ Misc/generalmapper.php?table= khoikhoiinae &amp;genus= Sania &amp;species=masneri. <b>Etymology.</b> Dedicated to Lubomír Masner for his dedication to systematics and for the inspiration that he has given to so many of us. <b>Note.</b> This species is referred to as <i>Sania</i> sp. n. 1 in the molecular study by Murphy et al. (2008).
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 338-342, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.20.108, http://zenodo.org/record/576519
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