Aleiodes (Athacryvac) braeti 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 braeti

description: Aleiodes (Athacryvac) braeti Shimbori & Shaw sp. nov.
(Figs 17–22, 73, 79)
Diagnosis. Body mostly dark brown, pronotum, propleuron, fore and mid legs honey yellow; fore wing vein r-m present; hind wing vein RS slightly sinuate basally then almost straight; vein m-cu present and interstitial to vein rm; occiput medially receding; body entirely coarse granulate; fore wing vein 1-CU1 slightly longer than vein cu-a; metasomal tergum 2 finely areolate, tergum 3 shining coriaceous; petiole without basal lateral flanges; hind coxa coarsely granulate dorsally.
Description of holotype. Ƌ, body length 4.3 mm, fore wing length 3.8 mm, antenna length 6.0 mm.
Head. Antennal segments 42, third segment about as long as fourth, length of third and fourth segments 3.0 times their width; length of maxillary palpi 1.3 times height of head; length of eye in dorsal view 1.9 times temple; head sculpturing shining granular; occiput receding dorsally, occipital carina indistinct dorsally, ventrally not reaching hypostomal carina; POL:OD:OOL = 6:3.5:3; face with relatively short setae, with weak median crest; clypeus granular, weakly protruding in lateral view; oral opening 0.44 times width of face; malar space about 1.8 times basal width of mandibles and 0.52 times eye height in frontal view; frons coriaceus, with a mid-longitudinal shallow sulcus, without lateral carina; inner margin of compound eyes weakly indented.
Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.67 times its height; sculpturing mostly granulate; pronotum crenulate anteriorly; precoxal sulcus present anteriorly and rugose; antescutal depression indistinct, pronotal collar extremely short and coriaceous; mesoscutum finely granulate, notauli broadly crenulate anteriorly and well defined, posteriorly meeting in a slightly depressed rugose area; scutellar sulcus granulate with few irregular longitudinal carina; scutellum finely granulate; propodeum mostly coarsely granulate, rugose posteriorly and laterally, with complete longitudinal carina; ventral midline of mesopleuron set within narrow and weakly crenulate sulcus, mostly smooth medially.
Wings. Fore wing: vein r-m present, second submarginal cell amolst square-shaped, vein 3-SR about as long as vein 2-M; r:3-SR:SR1:2-SR:2-SR+M = 12:18:43:14:12; veins 1-SR+M and 1-M virtually straight; 1-CU1:2- CU1:cu-a = 5:19:4. Hind wing: vein cu-a short and reclivous; M+CU:1-M:1r-m = 13:26:15; vein RS only slightly sinuate at base, gradually away from wing margin; vein m-cu present and interstitial to vein r-m.
Legs. Tarsal claws simple, not pectinate, with some bristles basally, its apical tooth curved upward; hind coxa granulate, dorsally with some rugosity; femur, tibia and basitarsus of hind leg 5.5, 11.1 and 10.0 times their width, respectively; length of inner hind tibial spurs 0.3 times hind basitarsus; hind tarsi 1.1 times as long as hind tibia.
Metasoma. Length of first tergite 1.4 times its apical width, petiole long and narrowing toward base; midlongitudinal carina present on first tergite, although interrupted medially, virtualy absent on second tergite; first tergite sculpturing rugose with areolate backgrond, laterally rugose-costate; second tergite areolate; third tergite shining coriaceus; remaining tergites largely smooth; length of second tergite 1.4 times median length of third tergite; ovipositor sheaths short with truncate apex, 0.5 times length of hind tarsomere II, with soft and shrunk apical projection; dorsal carina forming small triangular area at base of petiole; base of petiole without lateral flanges.
Color. Dark brown; scapus and pedicel brown, flagellum dark brown; palpi whitish yellow; pronotum, propleuron, tegula, fore and mid legs honey yellow; hind leg honey yellow basally, femur gradually dakening toward apex, reminder legs apically brow; metasoma with laterotergites and sternum honey yellow. Wings hyaline, veins light brown.
Variation. Body length 3.3–5.9 mm; antenna 40–51 antennomeres. Some paratypes have the base of hind tibia whitish yellow, and/or pronotum partially brown.
Female. Unknown.
Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Type material. Type-locality: PERU, Cusco Region, Urubamba province, Aguas Calientes, Machu Picchu, Approximate coordinates Latitude -13.6667 Longitude -72.5000, 21.XII.1983. Type specimen: HOLOTYPE, Ƌ (CNC), point mounted. Top label: “ PERU: Cuzco / Machu Picchu / 21.XII.1983 / L. Huggert”; bottom label: “ CNC ”. PARATYPES (10Ƌs). PERU. 1Ƌ, same as holotype; 1Ƌ same as holotype except, Aguas Calientes; 1Ƌ, same as holotype except, Quillabamba, “Alto Samboray”, 26.XII.1984 (CNC); 1Ƌ (MZSP), same data, Torentoy Canyon 2000–2200, 19–24.VI.1964, B. Malkin. BOLIVIA. 1Ƌ, Cochabamba, Villa Tunari, 6 X.2001, 16 °54'55"S 65°22'06"W, Malaise Trap, H. Heider; 1Ƌ, Yungas, 50 km N of La Paz, 2200 m, 27.I.1973, J. Helava (CNC). ECUADOR: 1Ƌ, Napo, Puerto Misahualli, 350 m, February 18–22, 1983, M. Sharkey VENEZUELA. 3Ƌ, Paratepuy, XII.1940, Anduze (CNC)
Discussion. Aleiodes braeti sp. nov. has diagnostic characters in common with A. amazonensis sp. nov. and A. tico sp. nov., namely: vein m-cu of hind wing present, dorsally concave occiput, and relatively compact and short antenna. The last character is more conspicuous in females, however the female of A. braeti is unknown. Aleiodes braeti sp. nov. is similar to A. zaldivari sp. nov., the distinction of these two species is detailed in the discussion section for A. zaldivari sp. nov. Aleiodes braeti sp. nov. also resembles A. tico sp. nov. from which it can be distinguished by the entirely dark brown head, compared with mostly yellowish with clypeus and gena pale yellow in A. tico sp. nov., and the apical metasomal terga dark brown, while whitish in A. tico sp. nov., and occipital carina is interrupted dorsally in A. braeti sp. nov., while complete in A. tico sp. nov.
Etymology. This species is named in honor of our colleague, braconidologist Yves Braet, a co-discoverer of this lineage of insects.
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 93-95, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/255331