Aleiodes spurivenaduplus Quicke & Butcher, 2011

Butcher, Buntika Areekul, Smith, M. Alex & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2011, A new derived species group of Aleiodes parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) from Asia with descriptions of three new species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 23, pp. 35-42 : 36-37

Aleiodes spurivenaduplus Quicke & Butcher sp. n. Fig. 1c

Holotype female.

"C. VIETNAM: Thua Thien Hué, Phong Dién N.R. nr base-camp, 50-100 m. 24.iii.2001. at light, C. v. Achterberg RMNH01", " BCLDQ01315 [DNA voucher code]" (RMNH).

Morphology.

Head. Antenna with 54 flagellomeres.

Coloration. Bright ochreous yellow with flagellum, stemmaticum, metasomal tergite 4, hind coxa largely, hind femur medially, hind tibia apically, and hind tarsus black. In darker specimens black or dark brown marks occur on lateral lobes of mesoscutum, mesopleuron, propodeum antero-laterally, and metasomal tergites 2-4. Wings pale yellow with yellow to brown yellow venation and with fore wing parastigma and apex of C+SC+R black.

Notes.

Differs from the three other sequenced Vietnamese specimens ( Aleiodes spurivena sp. nov) for which CO1 sequences of more than 500 base pairs were obtained at 3 positions, each corresponding to a 3rd codon position ( Table 1 ).

Figures

Figure 1. Features of fore wing venation of a Aleiodes spurivenatriplus sp. n. b Aleiodes spurivena sp. n. c Aleiodes spurivenaduplus sp. n.