Aleiodes Wesmael

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Kula, Robert R., 2012, Review of the brachypterous, micropterous, and apterous Braconidae of the cyclostome lineage (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Palearctic Region 3240, Zootaxa 3240 (1), pp. 1-62 : 35

Genus Aleiodes Wesmael

Rogadinae was divided into five tribes, Aleiodini , Yeliconini, Rogadini , Stiropiini, and Clinocentrini , based on results of a recent molecular cladistic analysis (Zaldivar et al. 2008b). Aleiodes , the largest genus of Rogadinae with about 275 described species worldwide, is represented in all zoogeographic regions ( Yu et al. 2005). Aleiodes hemipterus Marshall , a species with brachypterous females known from North Africa ( Shenefelt 1975), is the only species of Rogadinae with wings reduced in size. The female is redescribed and male described for the first time below based on the holotype female and specimens from Morocco.