Aleiodes (Athacryvac) gonzalezi 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 gonzalezi

description: Aleiodes (Athacryvac) gonzalezi Shimbori & Shaw sp. nov.
(Figs 30, 32, 38–41, 79)
Diagnosis. Body mostly dark brown, head dorsally dark brown, laterally honey yellow, legs mostly honey yellow; occipital carina complete dorsally, ventrally virtually reaching hypostomal carina; vertex and frons granulate; small eyes, in dorsal view 1.2 times longer than temple; female flagellomeres distinctly longer than wide, 10th flagellomere 1.8 times longer than wide; fore wing vein 1-CU1 about slightly longer than cu-a; hind wing vein mcu present and pigmented, well antefurcal to vein r-m; vein RS virtually straight; dorsal carina forming semicircular area at base of petiole.
Description of holotype. ♀, body length 4.4 mm, fore wing length 3.5 mm, antenna length around 5.0 mm.
Head. Antennal segments 39, antenna relatively short, 1.45 times as long as fore wing, third segment 1.1 times as long as fourth segment, length of third, fourth and penultimate antennal segments 2.5, 2.25 and 1.4 times their width, respectively; length of maxillary palpi 1.26 times height of head; eyes small, length of eye in dorsal view 1.2 times temple; head sculpturing shining granulate, face and temples smoother but also granulate; occipital carina complete dorsally, ventrally very close but not meeting hypostomal carina, occiput receding dorsally; POL:OD:OOL = 4:3:7; face with median crest; clypeus slightly protruding in lateral view; oral opening 0.4 times width of face; malar space large, 2.1 times longer than basal width of mandibles and 0.79 times eye height in frontal view; frons with weak lateral carina; eyes with inner margin weakly indented.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.75 times its height; surface sculpturing mostly granulate; pronotum mostly shining granulate with crenulate pronotal groove; mesopleuron with rugose subalar groove; precoxal sulcus rugose, shallow and wide anteriorly; middle lobe of mesoscutum without distinct antescutal depression, pronotal collar very short, coarsely granulate; notauli deep and crenualte anteriorly, meeting posteriorly in rugose depressed area; scutellar sulcus granulate anteriorly, with complete mid-longitudinal plus one pair of lateral carina; scutellum granulate; propodeum coarsely granulate on basal lateral areas, granulate-rugose otherwise, longitudinal carina complete and straight; ventral midline of mesopleuron set within shallow deep, crenulate sulcus.
Wings. Fore wing: vein r-m present, second submarginal cell short and trapezoidal, vein 3-SR 0.88 times longer than 2M; r:3-SR:SR1:2-SR:2-SR+M = 16:15:68:15:12; vein 1-SR+M and 1-M virtually straight; 1-CU1:2- CU1:cu-a = 5:23:4. Hind wing: vein cu-a short and weakly reclivous; M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 13:40:17; vein RS virtually straight, gradually away from wing margin; vein m-cu present and well antefurcal to vein r-m.
Legs. Tarsal claws not pectinate, with several setae basally, its apical tooth curved; hind coxa granulate; femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 6.4, 11.1 and 7.8 times their width, respectively; length of inner hind tibial spurs 0.32 times hind basitarsus; hind tarsi about as long as hind tibia.
Metasoma. Petiole apical width 2.3 times longer than basal width, length of first tergite 1.65 times its apical width; first tergite coarsely areolate-rugose, mid-longitudinal carina indistinct; second tergite finely areolate (appearing granulate without proper light and magnification), mid-longitudinal carina very weakly indicated anteriorly; third tergite shining coriaceous, with convex outline; remaining tergites largely smooth; length of second tergite 1.25 times median length of third tergite; ovipositor sheaths very short, 0.62 times shorter than hind tarsomere II, with distinct apical acute projections curved upward; dorsal carina forming semicircular area at base of petiole; base of petiole with lamelliform lateral flanges, its posterior margins rounded or right angled.
Color. Body moslty dark brown; head dark brown dorsally, gena and honey yellow, face honey yellow with brown central spot, palpi white; metasoma beyond tergum 3 yellow. Antenna with scapus and pedicel light brown, flagellum dark brown, lightening apically, apical segments whitish. Fore and mid legs pale yellow, hind leg mostly brown to honey yellow with pale yellow trochanter and trochantellus.
Variation. Antennomeres 39–40, with 14–15 apical segments white; paratype with a pale yellowish patch middorsally on mesopleuron and legs lighter, all coxa whitish yellow.
Male. Very similar to female. The antenna is relatively longer and slenderer, entirely dark brown, without whitish apex as in female. The mesopleuron have whitish marking laterally, dark brown ventrally and dorsally, as compared with entirely dark brown in female, apical metasomal terga beyond third tergite also dark brown, but yellow in female, and legs whitish, while mostly honey yellow in female. In female the longitudinal carina is indistinct on first tergite and very weakly indicated anteriorly on second tergite, in male it is distinct on apical half of first tergite and almost complete on second tergite.
Distribution. Colombia and Costa Rica.
Type material. Type-locality: COLOMBIA, HUILA department, Parque Nacional Natural Cueva de los Guácharos, Alto el Mirador, 1º38’N 76º06’W, elevation 1980m. Type-specimen: HOLOTYPE ♀, point mounted (IAVH). Top label: “ COLOMBIA: Huila PNN Cueva / de los Guácharos Alto el / Mirador 1º38’N 76º6’W 1980m / Malaise 21.iv–5.v.2002 / J. Fonseca Leg. M.3128”; bottom label “Instituto Humboldt Colombia / IAVH-E- 150074”. PARATYPES (2♀ and 1Ƌ). 1Ƌ (IAVH # 150127), same as holotype, RISARALDA department, Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otún Quimbaya, Robedal, 4º44’N 75º53’W, 1980m, Malaise trap, 18.II–4.III.2003, G. López Leg., M3699; COSTA RICA: 1♀, San Jose province, Zurqui de Moravia, 1600m, October–December 1990, P. Hanson col.; 1♀, same data except: VI.1992 (UWIM).
Discussion. This species resembles A. choco sp. nov., differing from it by the absence of the long acute basal lateral flanges on petiole (present in A. choco sp. nov.), which is smaller and rounded in A. gonzalezi sp. nov., and the occipital carina ventrally not reaching hypostomal carina, as compared with both carinae widely separated in A. choco sp. nov. Aleiodes gonzalezi sp. nov. also have the metapleuron and abdominal cerci dark brown, as compared with honey yellow in A. choco sp. nov., and the cerci with few long apical setae, while setae on cerci are much shorter in A. choco sp. nov. The occipital carina ventrally meeting hypostomal carina is a character only shared with A. tico sp. nov. Comparison between these two species is found in the discussion section for A. tico sp. nov.
Etymology. The species is named in honor of Fabio Arturo Gonzalez Alvarado, curator of the Entomological Collection of the Institute von Humboldt, in Villa de Leyva, Colombia, who kindly loaned several Colombian specimens for our taxonomic revision.
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 101-103, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255331