Aleiodes flavostriatus, Quicke & Butcher, 2012

Butcher, Buntika Areekul, Smith, M. Alex, Sharkey, Mike J. & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2012, A turbo-taxonomic study of Thai Aleiodes (Aleiodes) and Aleiodes (Arcaleiodes) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) based largely on COI barcoded specimens, with rapid descriptions of 179 new species, Zootaxa 3457, pp. 1-232 : 100

Aleiodes flavostriatus sp. nov.

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Holotype ♀, Thailand, Trang, Khoa Chang, Forest Research Station , 21–26.i.2005, 7° 33’ 2” N, 99° 47’ 23” E, 75m, D. Lohman (voucher BCLDQ00628, Genbank JF962636 ) ( QSBG).

Paratypes: THAIL AND: 1 ♀, Nan , Doi Phu Kha N.P., km 36.2, 1470m, 8.i.1992, I.J. Kitching & A. M. Cotton ( BMNH) ; 1 ♂, Trang Province Province, Khaochong , 29.iv-2.v.2005, 7° 33.038’ N, 99° 47.369’ E, 75m, Malaise trap (voucher BF002933; no sequence data) ( BMNH) ; LAOS: 1 ♀, Nam Tha NPA, 65 km NW Luang Nam Tha, 8- 15.iv.2010, 1050m, S. Murzin ( HIC) .

Body length 8.5 mm, fore wing length 7.0 mm and antenna length 8.6 mm.

Antenna with 60 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere pointed but not accuminate. Median flagellomeres marginally longer than wide. Occipital carina complete mediodorsally, narrowly obliterated ventrally near hypostomal carina. Mesopleuron shiny, deeply densely punctate to rugose, precoxal sulcus very deep, with strong oblique crnulae, speculum present narrowly posterioly and ventrally. Midlongitudinal propodeal carina complete though irregular; propodeum with well-developed medio-lateral angular protuberances. Fore wing vein 2-CU1 1.2 x 1-CU1. Fore wing subbasal cell and antero-basal part of subdiscal cell largely glabrous. Fore wing vein 3-SR 1.95 x vein r. Fore wing vein 2-SR+M 0.8 x vein r. Fore wing vein SR1 2.25 x vein 3-SR. Hind wing vein M+CU 1.4 x 1-M. Hind wing basal cell largely glabrous. Hind wing vein m-cu variable, from nearly absent to represented by pigmented wing fold, interstitial. Apex of hind tibia without comb of specially modified adpressed setae. Claws with pecten of 6 short robust teeth along whole of length of basal lobe, leaving larger gap before claw proper, longest in middle. Basal lobes of first metasomal tergite roundly protruding. Midlongitudinal carina of 3 rd tergite weakly differentiated only on anterior 0.2. Males without medial gland pore on tergites 4-6.

Etymology. Named because of it’s yellow-striped metasoma.

Notes. A superficially rather similar specimen from Vietnam, Tonkin (RMNH) though with slightly more robust fore leg differs in more than 50 bases.

Figures

FIGURE 71. A. flavostriatus sp. nov. A, habitus; B, face; C, mesosoma, lateral view; D, head and mesosoma, dorsal view; E, metasoma.