Aleiodes (Athacryvac) paradoxus Shimbori & Penteado-Dias, 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 paradoxus

description: Aleiodes (Athacryvac) paradoxus Shimbori & Penteado-Dias sp. nov.
(Figs 4, 42–47, 80)
Diagnosis. Head shining coriaceous, unusually shaped, with long anteriorly projected frons; whole yellowish species with brown antenna; occipital carina complete dorsally, not meeting hypostomal carina ventrally; clypeus strongly bulging; fore wing vein r-m present, second submarginal cell rectangular; hind coxa rugose dorsally; hind wing vein RS straight well pigmented; metasomal tergite 1 long; second metasomal tergite mostly finely areolate; first two or three flagellomeres fused, division between segments faintly indicated.
Description of holotype. ♀, body length 4.0 mm, fore wing length 3.2 mm, antenna length 8.5 mm.
Head. Antennal segments 54, first flagellomere extremely long, possibly composed by first two or three segments fused (there is some indication of segments limits, but they are clearly fused), length of first and second flagellomeres 10 and 4 times their width, respectively; length of maxillary palpi 0.9 times height of head; length of eye in dorsal view 4.6 times temple; head sculpturing shining granular-coriaceous; occipital carina complete dorsally, ventrally not reaching hypostomal carina; POL:OD:OOL = 3:3.5:6; face with weak median crest; clypeus strongly protruding in lateral view; oral opening 0.4 times width of face; malar space 1.5 times basal width of mandibles and 0.32 times eye height in frontal view; frons somewhat elevated anteriorly and without lateral carina, length of frons 2 times longer than vertex; inner margin of compound eyes weakly indented.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4 times its height; sculpturing mostly shining granular; pronotum smooth with very few crenulae medially; precoxal sulcus extending throughout extension of mesopleuron and rugose; antescutal depression indistinct, pronotal collar granular-coriaceous with a mid longitudinal carina; mesoscutum densely granulate, median lobe more coarsely sculptured than lateral lobes, v shaped carina present posteriorly; notauli crenulate, wide and shallow anteriorly; scutellar sulcus smooth with one pair of lateral longitudinal carina, carina not well defined; propodeum rugose, with longitudinal carina present anteriorly; ventral midline of mesopleuron set within deep crenulate sulcus.
Wings. Fore wing: vein r-m present, second submarginal cell rectangular, vein 2M as long as 3-SR; r:3- SR:SR1:2-SR:2-SR+M = 7:18:46:10:8; vein 1-SR+M weakly sinuate; vein 1-M slightly curved posteriorly; 1- CU1:2-CU1:cu-a = 11:25:5. Hind wing: vein cu-a short and reclivous; M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 13:41:11; vein RS straight, marginal cell gradually widening toward apex; vein m-cu absent.
Legs. Tarsal claws pectinate until base of apical tooth, its apical tooth not angularly bent; hind coxa granulate, transversely rugose dorsally; femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 6.0, 10.8 and 9.7 times their width, respectively; length of inner hind tibial spurs 0.25 times hind basitarsus; hind tarsi 1.2 times as long as hind tibia.
Metasoma. Petiole long and narrowing basally, 2 times wider apically than basally, length of first tergite about 1.5 times its apical width; mid-longitudinal carina extending from first tergite to basal ¼ of third tergite; first tergite sculpturing rugose-costate; second tergite finely areolate with few weak longitudinal wrinkles medially, smooth basal triangular area absent; third tergite basal 2/3 finely areolate; remaining tergites largely smooth; length of second tergite 1.4 times median length of third tergite; ovipositor sheaths acute apically, about 0.5 times longer than hind tarsomere II and 0.04 times as long as fore wing, with distinct thin and acute projections; dorsal carina of petiole forming a triangular area basally; base of petiole with narrow lateral flanges.
Color. Whole body honey yellow; flagellum with first 32 segmens dark brown, 33rd flagellomere half brown half white, apical 19 flagellomeres white, scapus and pedicel honey yellow; wings hyaline, veins and stigma brown, apex of stigma light pale yellow.
Variation. Body length 3.2–4.3 mm. Antenna with 48–54 segments, basal 32–33 flagellomeres dark brown, apical 14–19 flagellomeres white.
Male. Similar to female. Body length 3.4 mm, antenna with 48 segmens, apical 9 segments white; with a peculiar pair of bumps along eye inner margins, extending from lower face to lateral ocelli. Metasomal terga beyond third tergum with brown basaly and apically yellow.
Distribution. Known only from Amazonas and Rondônia states, BRAZIL.
Type material. Type-locality: BRAZIL, Rondônia state, Porto Vellho, Reserva Cuniã, S 8°19’27” W 63°29’44”, Malaise trap. Type-specimen: HOLOTYPE, ♀ (DCBU #10932), point mouted. Top label: “Porto Velho, RO, Brasil / Reserva do Cuniã / S 8°19’27” W 63°29’44” / Armadilha Malaise Pto. 1 / 26.VI.2011 / A.S. Soares col.”; bottm label: “10932”. PARATYPES (8 ♀ and 1Ƌ). 1 ♀ (DCBU #24462), same as holotype; 5♀ (DCBU #11366, #19895, #19907, #20605, #20634) and 1Ƌ (DCBU #11456), same as holotype, Parque Natural Municipal, S 8º41’12” W 63º52’10”, D. Santana col.; AMAZONAS state: 1♀ (DCBU #22043), Manaus, Reserve at KM 41, S 2°26’56.26” W 59°46’12.68”, Canopy in Amazonian “terra-firme” Forest, 23–24.VI.2004, Suspended trap, R.B. Silva col. (DCBU 22043); 1♀ (DCBU #22042), São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 20–29.IV.1982, CDC alto (light trap at canopy), E.J. Arias col.
Discussion. Aleiodes paradoxus sp. nov. is similar to A. achterbergi sp. nov., differing by having the head distinctly elevated at the torulli, not so in A. achterbergi sp. nov. Both species also differ in the shape of second submarginal cell, rectangular in A. paradoxus sp. nov. as compared to almost square in A. achterbergi sp. nov., and the fore wing vein r distinctly shorter than vein 2-SR in A. paradoxus sp. nov., as compared with slightly longer in A. achterbergi sp. n. The tergite 2 is finely areolate in A. paradoxus sp. nov., but mostly rugose-striate in A. achterbergi sp. nov., and metasomal terga are entirely yellowish, as compared with the alternate brown and yellow terga 2 and 3 in A. achterbergi sp. nov. The frons lack lateral carina in A. paradoxus sp. nov., which are present in pairs in A. achterbergi sp. nov.
Etymology. The name paradoxus means “strange”, in relation to the weird head shape.
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 103-105, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255331