Aleiodes farasanensis Gadallah & Edmardash, 2022

Abu El-Ghiet, Usama M., Edmardash, Yusuf A. & Gadallah, Neveen S., 2022, New species and records of braconid wasps from Farasan Archipelago (Jazan) Saudi Arabia, with notes on Diolcogaster mayae Shestakov, Zootaxa 5104 (1), pp. 49-79 : 68-72

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6317055
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scientific name	Aleiodes farasanensis Gadallah & Edmardash
status	sp. nov.

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Aleiodes farasanensis Gadallah & Edmardash sp. nov. ( apicalis -gp.)

Figs 12 A–F View FIGURE 12 , 13 A–C View FIGURE 13 , 14 A, B View FIGURE 14

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Type material: Holotype, ♀ ( EFC), Saudi Arabia (Farasan Archipelago, Al-Sajid), 16.86026N, 41.932564E, 25.i.2017, light trap, leg. Usama Abu El-Ghiet & Tarek M. El-Sheikh. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Body pale reddish to orange, with metasomal T1 and T2 reddish, rest of metasoma black ( Figs 12A View FIGURE 12 , 14A View FIGURE 14 ). Antenna with 64 antennomeres ( Fig. 12F View FIGURE 12 ); maximum width of hypoclypeal depression 0.54× as long as maximum width of face ( Fig. 12B View FIGURE 12 ); OOL 0.9 × as long as diameter of median ocellus, finely punctate; F4 distinctly longer than wide (1.66×) ( Fig. 12F View FIGURE 12 ); clypeus in the form of a narrow transverse band, with the same width medially and laterally ( Figs 12B, E View FIGURE 12 ); mesoscutum reticulate-rugose ( Fig. 13A View FIGURE 13 ); tarsal claws without pectens; marginal cell of fore wing ending rather close to wing apex ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ); vein 1–CU1 of fore wing 0.26× as long as 2–CU1 ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ); SMC2 medium-sized ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ); marginal cell of hind wing gradually widened to apex, apical width about 1.8× its width at level of hamuli ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ); distal end of hind femur with black hue ( Fig. 12A View FIGURE 12 ); palpi and tegula pale red to yellowish, antenna dark brown to black (scape reddish) ( Fig. 12F View FIGURE 12 ).

Description. Holotype, ♀, length of body 10mm; length of fore wing 6.5mm.

Colour ( Figs 12A–C View FIGURE 12 ; 13A, B View FIGURE 13 , 14A, B View FIGURE 14 ). Head dark ferruginous to black, with clypeus, mandible (except black tip), and palpi reddish brown; antenna dark brown to black, with scapus dark reddish brown; mesosoma and first two metasomal segments reddish brown to orange, remainder of metasoma black. Legs as body colour, with hind femur darker, with black tint apically, tarsal claws yellowish. Wings ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ) hyaline, with black pterostigma and veins (except bases of veins paler).

Head ( Figs 12B–F View FIGURE 12 ). Antenna with 64 antennomeres, F4 distinctly longer than wide, 1.66× as long as wide, scapus oblique apically, longer dorsally than ventrally; face (behind antennal bases) bulged (when seen in lateral view), with a middle longitudinal carina,densely finely punctate;face just above antennal bases until behind ocelli strongly depressed, obliquely striated; OOL 1.3× as long as posterior ocellus diameter, reticulate rugose; vertex finely or superficially rugose, shiny; clypeus coarsely punctate, with interspaces between punctures equal to puncture diameter, with sharp, nearly straight ventral margin; width of hypoclypeal depression 0.54× as wide as maximum width of face; eye 1.6× as long as temple in dorsal view; vertex behind stemmaticum with radiated rugae; clypeus located below lower level of eye; mandible bidentate, with two blunt teeth; malar space 0.22× length of eye in lateral view; occipital carina sharp, not reaching genal carina.

Mesosoma ( Figs 13A, B View FIGURE 13 , 14B View FIGURE 14 ). Mesoscutum reticulate rugose; precoxal area of mesopleuron rugose-foveolate above, punctate ventrally, remainder of mesopleuron as well as metapleuron densely foveolate; scutellum flat, superficially punctate, without lateral carina; propodeum irregularly foveolate, foveola small, with distinct median longitudinal carina, not reaching posterior declivity.

Wings ( Fig. 13C View FIGURE 13 ). Fore wing: vein r 0.6× 3–SR; marginal cell ends close to wing apex; 1–CU1 nearly horizontal, 0.26× as long as 2–CU1; r-m 0.58× as long as 3–SR; SMC2 medium-sized; 3-SR 1.6× as long as 2-SR; cu-a slightly oblique, straight; vein 1-M slightly curved posteriorly. Hind wing: marginal cell distinctly gradually widened to apex, apical width about 1.8× its width at level of hamuli; vein M +CU 1.6× as long as 1-M; 1r–m 1.1× as long as 1–M; vein m–cu very short, more or less interstitial with vein 1r–m.

Legs ( Fig. 12A View FIGURE 12 ). Tarsal claws simple (not pectinate), swollen at base; metacoxa densely superficially punctate dorsally; hind trochantellus slender, sparsely punctate; metafemur 1.8× as long as hind basitarsus; length of inner metatibial spur 0.34 × as long as hind basitarsus.

Metasoma ( Figs 12A View FIGURE 12 , 14A View FIGURE 14 ). Metasomal T1 rather flattened, 1.1× as long as its apical width; T1 and T2 with medio-longitudianl carina not reaching apical margin on T2, both tergites with coarse, longitudinal rugosity, that is somewhat weaker on T2; medio-basal area of T2 with wide, smooth triangle; basal half of T3 finely longitudinally striate, remainder of metasoma nearly smooth and shiny, with short, fine whitish setae; ovipositor sheath finger-like, very short, with fine setae throughout, rounded apically, 0.1× as long as metatibia.

Remarks. The species belongs to apicalis -sp. group as its characters strongly agrees with van Achterberg and Shaw’s key (2016; first part of couplet 3, p. 12). It is very similar to the formerly known species (now invalid species, van Achterberg, pers. comm.) Aleiodes africanus ( Enderlein, 1920) . Based on van Achterberg’s brief description (1991), the new species differs from A. africanus in the following combination of characters: head dark ferruginous, with some parts red ( Figs 12B–D View FIGURE 12 ), metasoma (except first two segments red) black ( Fig. 14A View FIGURE 14 ) (in A. africanus body reddish); 64 antennomeres ( Fig. 12F View FIGURE 12 ) (70 antennomeres in A. africanus ).