Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) arabicus Belokobylskij 2001
Creators: name: Belokobylskij, Sergey A.
name: Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Rhaconotus
Rhaconotus arabicus

description: Rhaconotus (Rhaconotus) arabicus Belokobylskij, 2001
Figs 47–48
Rhaconotus arabicus Belokobylskij, 2001a: 463.
Rhaconotus arabicus – Yu et al. 2016. — Edmardash et al. 2020: 43.
Material examined
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • 1 ♀; “United Arab Emirates, Wadi Safad (5026), at light, 1–8.vii.2006, 25°1′ N, 56°1′ E, A.v. Harten, RMNH’06”; RMNH • 1 ♀; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 2 ♀♀; “ United Arab Emirates, Wadi Safad (5020), at light, 14–21.v.2006, 25°1′ N, 56°1′ E, A.v. Harten, RMNH’06”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “ United Arab Emirates, Wadi Safad (5029), at light, 17–24.vi.2006, 25º1′ N, 56º1′ E, A.v. Harten, RNMH’06”; RMNH • 2 ♀♀; “ United Arab Emirates, Wadi Safad (5867–5902), at light, 31.i–21.ii.2006, 25º1′ N, 56º1′ E, A.v. Harten, RNMH’06”; RMNH • 1 ♀, 2 ♂♂; “ United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Desert park (2517), light trap, 20.x–8.xi.2005, 25º17′ N, 55º42′ E, A.v. Harten, RNMH’06”; RMNH • 1 ♂; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 1 ♀; “ United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Desert Park (3692–3697), light tr., 11.xii.2005 – 18.i.2006, 25º17′ N, 55º42′ E, A.v. Harten, RNMH’06”; RMNH • 2 ♂♂; “ United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Desert Park (6491), light trap, 1–25.ii.2006, 25º17′ N, 55º42′ E, A.v. Harten, RNMH’06”; RMNH • 3 ♂♂; “ United Arab Emirates, Sharjah Desert Park (2049– 2074), light tr., 30.iv–31.v.2005, 25º17′ N, 55º42′ E, A.v. Harten, RNMH’05”; RMNH.
YEMEN • 1 ♀; “Yemen (6117), Al Kowd, 21–28.viii.2001, Light trap, A.v. Harten, S. Al Haruri, RMNH’02”; RMNH • 1 ♀; “Yemen (8136), Al Kowd, ix.2003, light trap, A.v. Harten, S. Al Haruri, RMNH’03”; RMNH • 1 ♂; “Yemen (4054), Al Kowd, viii.1999, light–trap, A.v. Harten & S. Al Haruri, RMNH’00”; RMNH • 1 ♂; “Yemen, Al Kowd, v–vi.2000, light tr., no 4719, A.v. Harten & S, Al Haruri, RMNH’01”; RMNH • 1 ♀, 7 ♂♂; “Yemen (no 3308), Lahj, viii.1998, Mal. trap, A.v. Harten & A. Sallam, RMNH’99”; RMNH • 2 ♂♂; same label data as for preceding; ZISP • 3 ♂♂; “Yemen (6022), Lahj, vii–ix.2001, Mal. trap, A.v. Harten & A. Sallam, RMNH’02”; RMNH.
Description
Male (first record)
Body length 1.6–3.1 mm; fore wing length 1.2–2.1 mm. Antenna with 18–27-segmented. Fore wing 4.3– 4.8 times longer than maximum width. Hind femur 2.5–2.8 times longer than maximum broad. Metasoma 1.1–1.2 times longer than head and mesosoma combined, with sixth hardly sclerotised and visible tergites. First metasomal tergite 1.3–1.5 times longer than posterior width. Median length of posterior area of second tergite 0.8–1.0 times median length of the remaining part of tergite. Median length of second tergite (with posterior area) 0.8–1.0 times its anterior width, 1.6–2.0 times length of third tergite. Sometimes third tergite with shallow and rather weak transverse distal furrow and fourth tergite almost without such furrow. Fifth tergite sometimes (in small specimens) almost smooth on posterior half and weakly reticulate-rugulose in anterior half; on posterior margin almost straight, 1.0–1.3 times as long as practically smooth to very finely reticulate sixth tergite, 1.1 times longer than fourth tergite. Otherwise similar to female.
Distribution
Saudi Arabia, * UAE, * Yemen.
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 106-109, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.765.1479, http://zenodo.org/record/5514673