Aleiodes (Athacryvac) torresi Shimbori & Shaw, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio
name: Shaw, Scott Richard
name: Almeida, Luis Felipe Ventura De
name: Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aleiodes
Aleiodes torresi

description: Aleiodes (Athacryvac) torresi Shimbori & Shaw sp. nov.
(Figs 58–63, 81)
Diagnosis. Body mostly dark brown with contrasting pale yellowish legs and palpi white; antena dark brown with apical segments white; occipital carina complete dorsally, not meeting hypostomal carina ventrally; occiput slightly receding; face granular-coriaceus; fore wing vein r-m present; second submarginal cell barely square, vein 2RS weakly inclivous; hind wing m-cu absent.
Description of holotype. ♀, body length 3.3 mm, fore wing length 2.3 mm, antenna length 5.5 mm.
Head. Antennal segments 45, first and second flagellomere weakly fused, its limits distinct in frontal view; length of first and second flagellomeres (measured as not fused), 2.2 and 2.3 times their width, respectively; length of maxillary palpi 0.7 times height of head; length of eye in dorsal view 3 times temple; head sculpturing shining granular; occipital carina dorsally complete, ventrally not reaching hypostomal carina; POL:OD:OOL = 3:3.5:6; face with weak median crest; clypeus protruding in lateral view; oral opening 0.27 times width of face; malar space 1.5 times basal width of mandibles and 0.29 times eye height in frontal view; inner margin of compound eyes weakly indented.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4 times its height; sculpturing mostly shining granular; pronotum weakly shining granular ventrally, groove weakly crenulate; precoxal sulcus deep and anteriorly crenulate, extending over most of mesopleuron; pronotal collar very short and concealed by head; mesoscutum with Y-shaped carina present posteriorly; notauli weakly crenualte anteriorly, meeting in a weakly depressed area with short mid-longitudinal carina posteriorly; scutellar sulcus smooth and polished with one pair of lateral longitudinal carina, carina present only posteriorly; propodeum mostly areolate-rugose, granulate anteriorly, longitudinal carina nearly complete; ventral midline of mesopleuron set within deep strongly crenulate sulcus.
Wings. Fore wing: vein r-m present, second submarginal cell barely square, vein 2M slightly longer than vein 3-SR; r:3-SR:SR1:2-SR:2-SR+M = 9:15:34:10:7; vein 1-SR+M sinuate; vein 1-M weakly curved at base; 1- CU1:2-CU1:cu-a = 7:21:4. Hind wing: vein cu-a short and reclivous; M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 15:30:8; vein RS weakly bent down medially; vein m-cu absent.
Legs. Tarsal claws simple, not pectinate, its apical tooth curved upward; hind coxa granulate, weakly transversely costate dorsally; femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 4.6, 8.1 and 5.0 times their width, respectively; length of inner hind tibial spurs 0.3 times hind basitarsus; hind tarsi 1.1 times as long as hind tibia.
Metasoma. Petiole narrowing basally, about 2.1 times wider apically than basally, length of first tergite 1.37 times its apical width; mid-longitudinal carina distinct throughout first and second terga; first tergite rugose; second tergite finely areolate, with small smooth basal triangular area; third tergite very weakly areolate just basally; remaining terga smooth and polished; length of second tergite 1.5 times median length of third tergite; ovipositor sheaths acute apically, 0.9 times as long as hind tarsomere II and 0.08 times as long as fore wing, with distinct thin and acute projection; dorsal carina of petiole forming a semicircular area basally; base of petiole without lateral lameliform flanges.
Color. Dark brown; antenna with scapus and pedicel honey yellow, antennomeres 3–33 dark brown, 34th antennomere pale brown, apical 10 antennomeres white, propleuron honey yellow; legs honey yellow with coxa, trochanter and trochantellus whitish yellow; metasoma with apex of tergum 1, base of tergum 2 and tergum 3 honey yellow, remaining tergum 2 and apex of metasoma brown; wings hyaline, veins and stigma brown.
Male. Unknown
Distribution. Known only from type locality, Amazonas department in Colombia.
Type material. Type-locality. COLOMBIA: Amazonas department, Parque Nacional Natural Amacayacu, San Martín, 3º46’S 70º18’W, 150m, Malaise trap, 24.IV–05.V.2000, M88. Type-specimen. HOLOTYPE, ♀ (IAVH #149303), point mounted: “ COLOMBIA: Amazonas / PNN Amacayacu San Martin / 3º46’S 70º18’W, 150m / Malaise 24.iv–5.v.00 / A. Parente leg”.
Discussion. Aleiodes torresi sp. nov. species resembles A. fuscatus in having a mostly dark brown body. It differs from A. fuscatus in the color of hind coxa, entirely pale yellowish in A. torresi sp. nov., as compared with pale yellowish basally and dark brown apically in A. fuscatus. The face sculpturing is granular-coriaceus in A. torresi sp. nov., as conpared with transverselly costate in A. fuscatus. The face sculpturing resembles A. achterbergi sp. nov. and A. paradoxus sp. nov. These two species have head and mesosoma entirely honey yellow, as compared with dark brown in A. torresi sp. nov.
Etymology. This species is named in honor of Miguel Angel Torres, for his work on the insect collection of von Humboldt Institute, and for his assistance during EMS visit to Villa de Leyva.
description: Published as part of Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio, Shaw, Scott Richard, Almeida, Luis Felipe Ventura De & Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria, 2016, Eleven new species of Athacryvac Braet & van Achterberg from the Neotropical Region (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae), pp. 83-117 in Zootaxa 4138 (1) on pages 110-111, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255331