Aleiodes tobiasi, 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 : 213-214

Aleiodes tobiasi sp. nov.

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Holotype ♀, Thailand, Chiang Mai Province, Doi Inthanon NP, checkpoint 2, 22.vii.2006, 18° 31.554’ N, 98° 29.940’ E, 1700m, A. Areeluck (voucher BCLDQ00224, Genbank JF963447 ) ( QSBG).

Body length 5.5 mm, fore wing length 4.5 mm and antenna length 6.0 mm.

Antenna with 41 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere pointed, slightly acuminate. Median flagellomeres 2 x longer than wide. Frons without sublateral carina near eye. Occipital carina complete, medio-dorsally produced into a point and giving rise to a distinct midlongitudinal carina on occiput, ventrally joining hypostomal carina. Mesopleuron largely aciculate, with superimosed rugulose sculpture anteriorly and dorsally, precoxal sulcus moderately deep, narrow, strongly vertically striate, speculum huge. Propodeum with complete midlongitudinal carina. Fore wing vein 2-CU1 2.2 x 1-CU1. Apex of fore wing subbasal cell evenly setose. Fore wing vein 3-SR 2.1 x vein r. Fore wing vein SR1 2.25 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 weak pigmented line, slightly antefurcal. Apex of hind tibia without comb of modified setae medially. Claws with pecten of 7 or 8 long, fine, pale brown teeth on basal lobe, these splaying and distinctly separated, and the penultimate ones slightly longer. Basal lobes of 1 st tergite very weak, rounded. Midlongitudinal carina of 3 rd tergite distinct on anterior 0.7.

Etymology. Named in honur of the late Vladimir Ivanovich Tobias, a great braconidologist working for a large part of his life under the constraints on the former Soviet regime. Died 2011.

Figures

FIGURE 178. A. tobiasi sp. nov. A, habitus; B, face; C, mesosoma, lateral view; D, head and anterior mesosoma, dorsal view; E, metasoma.