Aleiodes (Athacryvac) donaldquickei 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 donaldquickei

description: Aleiodes (Athacryvac) donaldquickei Shimbori & Penteado-Dias sp. nov.
(Figs 2, 33–37, 81)
Diagnosis. Mostly yellowish mesosoma; metasomal terga, most of propodeum, frons and vertex dark brown; antenna dark brown basally lightening apically, apical flagellomeres pale yellow; head and most of mesonotum shining granulate to smooth, but frons and vertex transverse rugose-striate; fore wing vein r-m present; hind wing vein RS virtually straight and well pigmented; vein m-cu present and just postfurcal to vein r-m; fore wing vein 1- CU1 longer than cu-a; metasomal tergite 2 striate and tergite 3 coriaceus; most flagellomeres about 1.5 times longer than wide; petiole around 1.2 times longer than apical width; precoxal sulcus shallow but distinct and crenulate; wing membrane tinted brown; tarsal claws pectinate basally.
Description of holotype. ♀, body length 6.3 mm, fore wing length 4.7 mm, antenna length 7.2 mm.
Head. Antennal segments 54, antenna 1.55 times as long as fore wing, third segment 1.8 times as long as fourth segment, length of third, fourth and penultimate antennal segments 3.0, 1.7 and 1.6 times their width, respectively; length of maxillary palpi 1.4 times height of head; eyes relatively small, length of eye in dorsal view 2.1 times temple; head sculpturing smooth and shining except for frons and vertex transversely striate; occipital carina widely absent dorsally, ventrally present but not reaching hypostomal carina, occiput strongly receding dorsally; POL:OD:OOL = 1:2:2; face sparsely punctate, with distinct median crest; clypeus punctate, almost flat, only weakly protruding dorsally; oral opening 0.4 times width of face; malar space 1.8 times longer than basal width of mandibles and 0.6 times eye height in frontal view; frons without lateral carina; inner margin of compound eyes distinctly indented.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma about 1.7 times its height; pronotum smooth and shining with some shining granulate sculpturing dorsally and ventrally, crenulate anterior-dorsally; propleuron shining-granulate; mesopleuron shining granulate, subalar groove rugose; precoxal sulcus distinct and crenulate; antescutal depression absent, pronotal collar very short and mostly smooth; mesoscutum granulate, notauli wide and shallow and mostly rugose, posteriorly meeting in a depressed granulate-rugose area; scutellar sulcus with irregular midlongitudinal carina; scutellum finely granulate; propodeum strongly rugulose, longitudinal carina short, present on anterior ¼; metapleuron mostly granulate, rugose posteriorly; ventral midline of mesopleuron set within deep weakly crenulate sulcus.
Wings. Fore wing: vein r-m present, second submarginal cell trapezoidal, vein 3-SR 0.8 times vein 2M; r:3- SR:SR1:2-SR:2-SR+M = 10:11:39:10:10; vein 1-SR+M slightly sinuate; 1-M weakly evenly curved; 1-CU1:2- CU1:cu-a = 8:43:6. Hind wing: vein cu-a short and moderately reclivous; M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 5:9:5; vein RS straight and well pigmented, gradually away from wing margin, vein m-cu present and just postfurcal to vein r-m.
Legs. Tarsal claws pectinate basally, with about nine bristles tightly arranged, its apical tooth angularly bent; hind coxa shining granulate, striate-rugose apical-dorsally; femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 6.5, 10.1 and 10.7 times their width, respectively; length of inner hind tibial spurs 0.24 times hind basitarsus; hind tarsi 1.1 times as long as hind tibia.
Metasoma. Petiole relatively long and broad, length of first tergite 1.2 times its apical width, apical width 1.7 times basal width; first and second terga granulate-rugose, mid-longitudinal carina extending over first and second terga and shortly indicated at basal third tergum; third tergite coriaceus, with convex outline; remaining tergites largely smooth; length of second tergite 1.4 times median length of third tergite; ovipositor sheaths very short with truncate apex, 0.3 times length of hind tarsomere II, with apical translucent acute projections; dorsal carina forming basal barely semicircular area; base of petiole with lamelliform lateral flanges.
Color. Mostly yellowish; frons, vertex and upper half of face, most of propodeum and metasomal terga 1–3 dark brown, tergum 4 light brown, remaining terga light yellow; antenna dark brown basally, lightening on apical third, apical flagellomeres pale yellow; fore and mid legs yellow with light brown femur; hind leg with coxa, trochanter, trochantellus and all tarsomeres yellow, femur and tibia dark brown except for whitish basal band on tibia; wings tinged brown.
Variation. Body size 5.9–6.3 mm, antenna with 52–54 segments.
Male. Very similar to female, with slenderer antenna and antenna color entirely dark brown, not lightening at apical third as in females.
Distribution. Known only from type locality at Valle del Cauca department in Colombia, in the occidental side of the Andes mountain range.
Type material. Type-locality: COLOMBIA, Valle del Cauca department, Parque Nacional Natural Farallones de Cali, Anchicaya, 3º26’N 76º48’W, elevation 730m, Malaise Trap, August 28 – September 11, 2001. Typespecimen: HOLOTYPE ♀ (IAVH #150049), point mounted. Top label: “ COLOMBIA: Valle del Cauca / PNN Farallones de Cali 730m / Anchicaya 3º26’N 76º48’W / Malaise 28.VIII–11.IX.2001 / S. Sarria Leg. M2864”; bottom label “Instituto Humboldt Colombia / IAVH-E-150049”. PARATYPES (1♀ and 2Ƌ), same as holotype: 1♀ (IAVH #149985), and 1Ƌ (IAVH #149984), 13–27.II.2001, M1530; 1Ƌ (IAVH #150052), 13.XI–11.XII.2001, M2885.
Discussion. This species is similar to A. amazonensis sp. nov. in having the vertex transversely striate and the mesosoma mostly yellow. However, the striate sculpturing extends to the frons in A. donaldquickei sp. nov., while in A. amazoniensis sp. nov. the frons is mostly smooth and polished. Aleiodes donaldquickei sp. nov. is a larger species, more elongated and with more slender legs than A. amazoniensis sp. nov., the head is dorsally dark brown, but entirely yellow in A. amazonensis sp. nov., fore wing vein 1CU-1 is longer than cu-a, as compared with shorter in A. amazonensis sp. nov. It also has a whitish basal band on hind tibia, contrasting with dark brown femur and remaining tibia, while in A. amazoniensis sp. nov. the hind tibia has the same color throughout or gradually lightening basally. The flagellomeres are more compact in A. amazoniensis sp. nov., the 10th flagellomere is 1.5 times longer than wide in A. donaldquickei sp. nov., as compared with nearly as long as wide in A. amazoniensis sp. nov.
Etymology. The species is named in honor of our colleague Donald J. Quicke.
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 98-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255331