Aleiodes sanctihyacinthi (Provancher)

Shaw, Scott R., Marsh, Paul M. & Fortier, Joseph C., 2006, Revision of Nearctic Aleiodes Wesmael (Part 8): the coxalis (Spinola) Species­Group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Rogadinae), Zootaxa 1314, pp. 1-30 : 23

Aleiodes sanctihyacinthi (Provancher)

( Figs. 4 , 15 , 22 )

Rogas Sancti­Hyacinthi Provancher, 1880 , Nat. Canad. 12:146.

Rogas hyphantriae Gahan, 1922 , Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 61(24):1. NEW SYNONYM.

Diagnosis. Body usually bicolored ( Fig. 4 ), head and mesosoma usually black but often marked with orange, antenna orange or brown, mesosoma rarely nearly entirely orange but at least mesonotal lobes black, metasoma orange, terga beyond third often black, legs orange, wings hyaline, veins brown, stigma unicolored brown ( Fig. 22 ), tegula yellow; body length, 4.5–5.5 mm; 46–48 antennomeres; malar space longer than basal width of mandible and about 1/2 eye height; face, frons and vertex rugulose coriaceous ( Fig. 15 ), temple coriaceous; oral space small and circular, diameter less than basal width of mandible; pronotum rugose; mesonotum and scutellum coriaceous; mesopleuron rugulose coriaceous, smooth above episternal scrobe, subalar sulcus and sternaulus rugose; propodeum rugose, median carina complete; first metasomal tergum rugose, median carina complete, second tergum costate rugose, median carina complete, third tergum costate rugose on basal half, coriaceous on apical half, median carina complete on basal 2/3; fore wing with vein 1cu­a beyond 1M by distance equal to or greater than length of 1cu­a; hind wing with vein RS arched in middle, marginal cell narrowest in middle, vein m­cu a short weak fuscous line; tarsal claws not pectinate.

Type Material Examined. Rogas Sancti­Hyacinthi Provancher , lectotype female, Quebec [ ULQC]. Rogas hyphantriae Gahan , holotype female, New Brunswick [ USNM].

Distribution. New Brunswick, Maine, Ontario, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Utah, and British Columbia.

Biology. Reared from Hyphantria cunea (Drury) and H. textor Harr. This species has also been introduced into Yugoslavia as hyphantriae .

Comments. This species is similar to aciculatus but differs in the entirely brown stigma and more coriaceous fourth metasomal tergum.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Habitus illustrations of the Aleiodes coxalis species­group and mummy of A. aquilonius. 1, A. aquilonius; 2, A. aquilonius mummy; 3, A. brevis; 4, A. sanctihyacinthi; 5, A. dichromatus; 6, A. shenefelti; 7, A. wyomingensis; 8, A. itamevorus.

FIGURES 11 – 16. Head and mesosomal characters of the Aleiodes coxalis species­group. 11, A. aciculatus pronotum; 12, A. brevis pronotum; 13, A. aciculatus vertex; 14, A. wyomingensis vertex; 15, A sanctihyacinthi vertex (Arrow indicates yellow coloration around eye); 16, A. quadratus propodeum (Arrows indicate tubercles).

FIGURES 17 – 22. Wing features of the Aleiodes coxalis species­group. 17, A. aciculatus forewing (Arrow indicates bicolored stigma); 18, basi­posterior section of forewing of A. aquilonius; 19, A. itamevorus hind wing; 20, A. quadratus forewing (Arrow indicates bicolored stigma); 21, A. quadratus forewing (Arrow indicates nearly square second submarginal cell); 22, A. sanctihyacinthi forewing (Arrow indicates unicolored stigma).