Aleiodes curtivena, 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 : 83-84

Aleiodes curtivena sp. nov.

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Holotype ♂, Thailand, Chaiyaphum, Pha Hin Ngam NP, dipterocarp forest, 7.ii.2007, 15° 38.099’ N, 101° 23.921’ E, 698m, Sa-nog & Bulakaw (voucher BCLDQ00262, Genbank JQ388452 ) ( QSBG).

Specimens with identical sequences, sexes unknown, Thailand, Chiang Rai, Mae Fah Luang University Campus, 20.vii.09, UV light trap, Quicke, Butcher & Butcher (vouchers BCLDQ01300, Genbank HM435218 ; BCLDQ01302, Genbank HM435220 ; BCLDQ01303, Genbank HM435221 ; BCLDQ01305, Genbank HM435223 ; BCLDQ01307, Genbank HM435225 ; BCLDQ01308, Genbank HM435226 ; BCLDQ01309, Genbank HM435227 ; BCLDQ01310, Genbank HM435228 ) [destroyed by ants] .

Body length (adjusted for bent shape) 2.9 mm, fore wing length 2.6 mm and antenna length 3.1 mm.

Antenna with 29 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere acuminate. Median flagellomeres approximately 3.5 x longer than wide. Occipital carina broadly interrupted medially, ventrally joining hypostomal carina. Mesopleuron largely shiny, with weak aciculate sculpture, precoxal sulcus weakly impressed, narrow, slightly more coarsely sculpured anteriorly; speculum large. [Propodeum obscured by glue.] Fore wing vein 2-CU1 2.15 x 1-CU1. Apex of fore wing subbasal cell evenly setose. Fore wing vein 3-SR 0.7 x vein r, and shorter than 2-SR. Fore wing vein 2-SR+M 1 x vein r. Fore wing vein SR1 4.46 x vein 3-SR. Hind wing vein M+CU 1.15 x 1-M. Hind wing subbasal cell evenly setose. Hind wing vein m-cu represented by a faint, long, slightly curved fold, interstitial. Apex of hind tibia without comb of specialised adpressed setae medially. Claws without conspicuous pecten. Basal lobes of 1 st tergite not protruding. Midlongitudinal carina of 3 rd tergite distinct on anerior 0.75.

Etymology. In reference to the very short fore wing vein 3-SR.

Figures

FIGURE 56. A. curtivena sp. nov. A, habitus; B, face; C, head and mesosoma, lateral view; D, head and anterior mesosoma, oblique dorsal view; E, metasoma.