Aphelopus alebroides Xu, Olmi, Guglielmino & Dong, 2011

Xu, Zaifu, Olmi, Massimo & He, Junhua, 2013, Dryinidae of the Oriental region (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), Zootaxa 3614 (1), pp. 1-460 : 20

4. Aphelopus alebroides Xu, Olmi, Guglielmino & Dong, 2011

( Plates 5A, B , 6C )

Aphelopus alebroides Xu, Olmi, Guglielmino & Dong 2011c: 299 .

Description of female ( Plate 5A ). Fully winged; length 1.6–1.9 mm. Head black, except mandible testaceous; antenna brown, except segments 1–3 testaceous; mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs testaceous. Antenna clavate; antennal segments in following proportions: 6:6:6:7:8:7:7:7:6.5:11.5. Head dull, granulated; frontal line complete; POL = 9; OL = 6; OOL = 4; OPL = 3; TL = 3; greatest breadth of posterior ocelli about as long as OPL; occipital carina complete. Scutum, scutellum and metanotum dull, granulated. Notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.3–0.5 length of scutum. Propodeum with anterior surface reticulate rugose; posterior surface sculptured by two longitudinal keels, lateral areas dull, reticulate rugose and median area shiny and smooth. Fore wing hyaline, without dark transverse bands. Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Description of male ( Plate 5B ). Fully winged; length 1.6–1.8 mm. Head black, except mandible testaceous; antenna brown, except segments 1–2 testaceous; mesosoma black; metasoma brown; legs testaceous. Antenna filiform; antennal segments in following proportions: 5.5:5.5:7:9:9:12:12:12:11:17. Head dull, granulated; frontal line complete; POL = 12; OL = 6; OOL = 4; OPL = 2.5; TL = 2.5; greatest breadth of posterior ocelli slightly longer than OPL (3:2.5); occipital carina complete. Scutum, scutellum and metanotum dull, granulated. Notauli incomplete, reaching about 0.3–0.5 length of scutum. Propodeum with anterior surface reticulate rugose; posterior surface sculptured by two longitudinal keels, lateral areas dull, reticulate rugose and median area shiny and smooth. Fore wing hyaline, without dark transverse bands. Basivolsella fused with paramere, without outer basal process, with two subdistal bristles ( Plate 6C ). Tibial spurs 1/1/2.

Material examined. Types: holotype ♂: CHINA: Yunnan, Yongshan County, Huanghua Town, 28°00'N 103°51'E, 1500 m, 30.X.2010, reared from Arboridia sinensis feeding on Zanthoxylum bungeanum, Wei Dong leg. ( SCAU). Paratypes: same locality label as holotype, 5♂ and 2♀♀ ( SCAU); same locality label as holotype, 1♂ and 1♀ ( MOLC); same locality label as holotype, 8.X.2010, 4♀♀ and 4♂ ( SCAU).

Hosts: Cicadellidae Typhlocybinae ( Xu et al., 2011c) : in China, Yunnan: Arboridia sinensis Guglielmino, Xu, Bückle & Dong 2012 ( Plate 6D ) feeding on Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maximowicz (Rutaceae) (Chinese pricklyash; Sichuan pepper tree). Xu et al. (2011c) attributed erroneously the host to Alebroides genus.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Figures

PLATE 5. Aphelopus alebroides. A. Female. Length 1.7 mm. B. Male. Length 1.8 mm. (From Xu et al. 2011c).

PLATE 6. A–C, E–G.Male genitalia. A. Aphelopus achterbergi, holotype (from Olmi 1998a). B. A. albiclypeus from Laos. C. A. alebroides, holotype (from Xu et al. 2011c). D. Arboridia sp. parasitized by A. alebroides (from Xu et al. 2011c). E. A. borneanus from China. F. A. indicus, holotype (from Olmi 2010). G. A. luteoceps, holotype. Scale bar 0.18 mm for A, 0.16 mm for B, 0.14 mm for C, E and F, 0.26 mm for G.