Aleiodes andinus Shaw &amp; Shimbori 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shaw, Scott R.
name: Shimbori, Eduardo M.
name: Penteado-Dias, Angelica M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aleiodes
Aleiodes andinus

description: Aleiodes andinus Shaw &amp; Shimbori sp. nov.Figs 4-7 Type material. Holotype, female (MUSM) "PERU: CUSCO, La Convención, Echarate, C. Segakiato. 11°45'38.6"S, 73°14'57.7"W 908m. 01.ii.2011. M. Alvarado &amp; E Rázuri.” Description. Body length 8.1 mm. Fore wing length 6.4 mm. <i>Head.</i> In dorsal view eye length/temple 4.0. Eye height/head width 0.4. Eye height/minimum distance between eyes 1.1. OD/POL 2.2. OD/OOL 2.4. Frons excavated. Frons lateral carina present. Occipital carina dorsally complete, weakly curved. Occiput in dorsal view nearly straight, not indented medially. Occipital carina ventrally meeting hypostomal carina. Mid-longitudinal crest at upper face present. Hypoclypeal depression/face width 0.33. Malar space/eye height 0.19. Face height/width 0.7. Clypeus height/width 0.66. Clypeus convex, granulate. Sculpture of head mostly shiny granulate. Face weakly rugose, transversely rugose-striate around median crest. <i>Antenna.</i> Antennal segments 55. Antenna/body length 1.2. Scape/pedicel length 2.3. Length of first/second flagellomere 1.2. Fourth flagellomere length/apical width 1.7. Tip of apical segment of antenna pointed. <i>Mesosoma.</i> Length/height ~ 1.6. Width of mesoscutum/width of head 0.7. Mesoscutum length/width ~ 1.1. Pronotal collar/vertex 0.7. Prescutellar sulcus with complete median carina, rugose laterally without distinct lateral carinae. Mesoscutum posterior border with distinct complete carina. Metanotum with mid-longitudinal carina complete, connecting to a carinate pit posteriorly, carina bisecting posterior pit, although weaker posteriorly. Metanotum mid-pit present, delimited by carinae. Mid-longitudinal carina of propodeum present at basal 0.7, absent posteriorly. Ventral mid-line of mesopleuron set within shallow smooth sulcus; pit at ventral mid-line absent. Notauli weakly indicated anteriorly, indistinctly crenulate. Sternaulus weakly indicated anteriorly, rugose. Sculpture of mesosoma mostly granulate. Pronotum rugose laterally, or granulate ventrally, pronotal groove crenulate anteriorly, short subventral longitudinal carina present. Mesopleuron rugose below subalar groove. Subalar groove crenulate. Mid-posterior region of mesoscutum rugose. Mesoscutellar trough entirely costate. Metanotum mostly smooth and weakly crenulate. Propodeum mostly rugose. <i>Wings.</i> Fore wing: Stigma length/height 3.4. Vein r/2RS 1.3. Vein r/RS+Mb 1.2. Vein 3RSa/2RS 1.8. Vein 3RSa/2M 0.83. Vein 3RSa/3RSb 0.46. Vein 1CUa/1CUb 1.0. Vein 1CUa/2CUa 2.1. Vein 1cu-a weakly inclivous. Vein 1M nearly straight. Vein RS+Ma virtually straight. Vein M+CU weakly sinuate. Vein 1-1A very weakly sinuate apically. Vein 1a absent. Second submarginal cell trapezoidal. Subbasal cell glabrous, with two parallel rows of short setae subapically, a row of setae just below of vein 1CUa and M+CU apically, a row of setae apically just above vein 1-1A, and sparsely setose at base. Basal cell evenly setose. Hind wing: Vein RS bent at basal 0.3, with vein r. Marginal cell narrowest at base. Vein M+CU/1M 1.6. Vein M+CU/r-m 1.3. Vein m-cu present, spectral. Vein m-cu position relative to vein r-m antefurcal. Vein 2-1A absent. Basal cell sparsely setose, bare posteriorly. <i>Hind legs.</i> Femur length/width 5.0. Length of tibia/tarsi ~ 0.9. Length of basitarsus/tarsi 2-4 ~ 0.7. Sculpture of hind coxa dorsally mostly shiny granular-coriaceous, finely striate apically. Tarsal claws not pectinate. <i>Metasoma.</i> T1 length/apical width ~ 1.3. T2 length/apical width ~ 0.9. T3 length/apical width 0.7. Mid-longitudinal carina extending until near apex of T3. Metasoma sculpture T1 rugose, T2 and most of T3 striate-rugose, remainder metasoma smooth. Ovipositor sheath/hind basitarsus 0.5. Ovipositor sheaths narrow, with truncate apex; apical point absent. <i>Color.</i> Brownish yellow. Antenna with basal 12-13 flagellomeres black, apical segments yellow. Wings tinged yellow; stigma and most veins yellow; vein 1M at basal 0.7 and vein 1CUa black, veins r, 2RS, and apex of and 2CUb brown; distinctly infuscate area around base of vein 1M and vein 1CUa, faintly infuscate spots below apex of vein 1-1A and around vein 2CUb. <b>Male.</b> Unknown. Diagnosis. <i>Aleiodes andinus</i> is similar to three other new species described in this paper, <i>A. gonodontivorus</i>, <i>A. lidiae</i>, and <i>A. taurus</i>, which also have a distinctly bicolored flagellum with rapid transition from dark to light color (Figs 4, 41, 59, 79). However, those three species have a fore wing basal cell that is largely glabrous (Figs 47, 63, 83) and ovipositor sheath with an apical point (Figs 46, 62, 82), whereas the basal cell of <i>A. andinus</i> is evenly setose (Fig. 6) and the the ovipositor sheath lacks an apical point (Fig. 5). Distribution. Known only from the type-locality in Cusco, Peru. Etymology. The name refers to the Andes Mountains, which are prominent features of the Cusco region of Peru where the holotype specimen was collected.
description: Published as part of <i>Shaw, Scott R., Shimbori, Eduardo M. &amp; Penteado-Dias, Angelica M., 2020, A revision of the Aleiodes bakeri (Brues) species subgroup of the A. seriatus species group with the descriptions of 18 new species from the Neotropical Region, pp. 41-107 in ZooKeys 964</i> on page 41, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.964.56131