Aleiodes (Athacryvac) zaldivari 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 zaldivari

description: Aleiodes (Athacryvac) zaldivari Shimbori & Shaw sp. nov.
(Figs 64–69, 80)
Diagnosis. Body dark brown, all coxae and trochanters, and palpi pale yellow, remaining legs pale brown but hind leg dark brown apically, from apical half of femur; fore wing vein cu-a just postfurcal, 1CU-1 very short; petiole with longitudinal carina absent, strongly widening apically, about 2.8 times wider at apex than at base and almost as wide apically as long; T1 and T2 granular, T3 mostly smooth and polished.
Description of holotype. ♀, body length 3.8 mm, fore wing length 2.6 mm, antenna length 4.4 mm.
Head. Antenna with 44 segments, 1.7 times as long as fore wing, third segment as 1.25 times longer than fourth, length of third, fourth and penultimate antennal segments 2.0, 1.5 and 1.4 times their width, respectively; length of maxillary palpi 1.1 times height of head; length of eye in dorsal view 1.9 times temple; head sculpturing granular-coriaceus except vertex granular; occiput receding and occipital carina widely absent or indistinct middorsally, ventrally far from hypostomal carina; POL:OD:OOL = 4:4:7; face with weak median crest; clypeus granular; oral opening 0.41 times width of face; malar space large, 2.0 times longer than basal width of mandibles and 0.57 times eye height in frontal view; frons very weakly excavated, with a shallow pit centrally, without lateral carina; inner margin of compound eyes weakly indented.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.5 times its height; sculpturing mostly shining granular; pronotum granulate with pronotal groove crenulate anteriorly, weakly rugose posteriorly; mesopleuron granulate, subalar groove rugose; precoxal sulcus distinct and rugose; metapleuron coarsely granulate; pronotal collar extremely short; mesoscutum densely granulate, notauli deep and crenulate, posteriorly meeting in a depressed rugose area; scutellar sulcus rugose with few indistinct longitudinal carina; scutellum granulate; propodeum rugose with complete, although irregular posteriorly, longitudinal carina; ventral midline of mesopleuron set within smooth sulcus.
Wings. Fore wing: vein r-m present, second submarginal cell trapezoidal, vein 3-SR 0.89 times vein 2-M; r:3- SR:SR1:2-SR:2-SR+M = 11:16:50:11:10; veins 1-SR+M and 1-M straight; 1-CU1:2-CU1:cu-a = 1:10:2. Hind wing: vein cu-a short, only slightly reclivous; M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 11:30:13; vein RS nearly straight, marginal cell gradually widening toward apex; vein m-cu present and tubular, intersitial to r-m.
Legs. Tarsal claws simple, not pectinate, with some bristles basally, its apical tooth curved; hind coxa granulate; femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 5.1, 9.1 and 6.8 times their width, respectively; length of inner hind tibial spur 0.38 times hind basitarsus; hind tarsi about as long as hind tibia.
Metasoma. Petiole relatively short and strongly widened apically, the apical width 2.9 times basal width, its length about equal its apical width; mid-longitudinal carina weakly indicated basally on first tergite, otherwise absent; first tergite sculpturing coarsely granulate; second tergite granulate; third tergite smooth and polished; remaining terga smooth; length of second tergite 1.28 times median length of third tergite; ovipositor sheaths very short with truncate apex, about 0.5 times the length of hind tarsomere II and 0.06 times length of fore wing, with very short apical projection, which appears somewhat shrunk; dorsal carina forming small semicircular area at base of petiole; base of petiole with narrow lamelliform lateral flanges.
Color. Ground color dark brown; pronotum ventrally and propleuron pale yellow; antenna dark brown, apical 10 segments gradually lightening to a pale yellowish apex; fore and mid coxa and trochanter, and palpi whitish, remaining legs pale brown; hind leg dark brown apically, from apical half of femur, basally pale yellow, coxa brown dorsally.
Male. Very similar to female. Antenna relatively longer and slenderer with 45 segments, third and fourth antennomeres 2.7 and 2.5 times longer than wide respectively, as compared with 2.0 and 1.4 in the female. Antenna entirely dark brown, without light yellow apex as in female.
Distribution. This species is known only from Colombian Amazonia.
Type material. Type-locality: COLOMBIA, Putumayo department, Parque Natural Nacional La Paya, Cabaña Chagra, 0º7’S 74º56’W, 320m, March 1–13, 2002, Malaise Trap. Type-specimen: HOLOTYPE, ♀ (IAVH #150075), point mounted. Top label: “ COLOMBIA: Putumayo PNN / La Playa Cabaã La Playa / Chagra 0º7’S 74º56’W 320m / Malaise 1–13.III.2002 / R. Cobete Leg. M3136”; bottom label “Instituto Humboldt Colombia / IAVH-E-150075”. PARATYPE: 1Ƌ (IAVH #150084), Vaupés department, Estación Biológica Mosiro-Itajura (Caparú), Terrazas, 1º4’S 69º31’W, 60m, Malaise 7–22.IX.2002, L. Benavides Leg. M3398.
Discussion. Aleiodes zaldivari sp. nov. is similar to A. braeti sp. nov. in having a dark brown body and the mid-dorsally receding occiput, where occipital carina is not distinct. It can be distinguished by the petiole without a longitudinal carina, which is present basally and apically in A. braeti sp. nov.. The petiole is shorter and strongly widened posteriorly in A. zaldivari sp. nov., being almost as long as its apical width, as compared with 1.5 times longer than its apical width in A. braeti sp. nov. The mesopleuron has a light ventral spot in A. zaldivari sp. nov., but is entirely dark brown in A. braeti sp. nov.
Etymology. This species is named in honor of our colleague, braconidologist Alejandro Zaldívar Riverón.
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 111-116, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255331