Aleiodes floridensis Shaw and Marsh

Shaw, Scott R., Marsh, Paul M. & Fortier, Joseph C., 2006, Revision of Nearctic Aleiodes Wesmael (Part 8): the coxalis (Spinola) Species­Group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Rogadinae), Zootaxa 1314, pp. 1-30 : 14

Aleiodes floridensis Shaw and Marsh , NEW SPECIES

Female. Body color: head including antennae and mouthparts dark brown, face often light brown; mesosoma orange, propleuron and propodeum dorsally marked with brown; metasoma black; legs black, coxae brown, tibiae yellow at extreme base; wings hyaline, veins brown, stigma unicolored brown, tegula light brown. Body length: 5.0 mm; fore wing length, 4.0 mm. Head: eyes and ocelli small; 47–49 antennomeres in male paratypes (antennae broken in holotype female); malar space longer than basal width of mandible and about 1/2 eye height; temple about 1/3 eye width; occipital carina complete, reaching hypostomal carina; oral space small and circular, diameter about equal to basal width of mandible and 1/3 face height; clypeus not swollen; ocelli small, ocellocular distance greater than diameter of lateral ocellus; face, frons and vertex rugulose coriaceous, temple coriaceous; maxillary palpus not swollen; mandible small, tips not crossing when closed. Mesosoma: pronotum rugose; mesonotum and scutellum coriaceous, notauli weakly scrobiculate, meeting before scutellum in triangular rugose area; mesonotum coriaceous medially, nearly smooth above episternal scrobe, subalar sulcus rugose, sternaulus deep and rugose; propodeum rugose coriaceous, median carina complete. Legs: tarsal clawsa not pectinate; hind coxa rugose coriaceous dorsally. Wings: fore wing with vein r nearly 1/ 2 length of 3RSa and 2/3 lrngth of m­cu, vein 1cu­a beyond 1M by distance slightly greater than length of 1cu­a, vein 1CUa 1/3 length of 1CUb; hind wing with vein RS slightly arched, marginal cell narrowest in middle, vein 1r­m 3/5 length of 1M, vein M+CU about 1.5 times longer than 1M, vein m­cu represented by weak short fuscous line. Metasoma: first, second and third terga strongly rugose costate, median complete on all three terga; fourth tergum rugose costate on basal half, coriaceous on apical half; remainder of terga coriacoues; ovipositor about 2/3 length of hind basitarsus.

Male. Essentially as in female; metasomal more strongly rugose.

Holotype. Female: FLORIDA, Putnam County, 2 mi NW Orange Springs, August 4–8, 1975, D. Bowman, blacklight trap. Deposited in FSCA.

Paratypes. FLORIDA: 2 males, same data as holotype, 1 male same data as holotype but with dates of October 13­November 5, 1975 and collector J. Wiley; 1 male, Marion County, 9 mi SSW Ocala, September 19­October 2, 1975, J. Wiley. Deposited in FSCA, USNM, RMSEL.

Distribution. Known only from the type localities in Northern Florida.

Biology. Unknown.

Comments. This species is similar in sculpturing and color of the body to A. dichromatus but differs in its entirely brown stigma.

Etymology. The specific name is in reference to the locality in Florida of the only known specimens.