Aleiodes kasenenei Quicke & Shaw, 2006

Quicke, Donald L. J., Mori, Miharu, Riverón, Alejandro Zaldivar-, Laurenne, Nina M. & Shaw, Mark R., 2006, Suspended mummies in Aleiodes species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) with descriptions of six new species from western Uganda based largely on DNA sequence data, Journal of Natural History 40 (47 - 48), pp. 2663-2680 : 2674

Aleiodes kasenenei Quicke & Shaw , sp. n.

( Figure 14 )

Material examined

Holotype: Male, Uganda, Kibale Forest National Park, Kanyawara , viii-2002, reared from mummified, suspended geometrid larva ( NMS)

Description

Length of body 4.5 mm, of fore wing 4.1mm. Antenna with 40 segments.

As for A. barnardae sp. n. except for colour. Pterostigma largely pale buff with borders and apical quarter grey. Metasomal tergites 1–4 largely pale yellow-white, narrowly more ochreous-yellow laterally.

Molecular features

Differs from all other species in the group by a single base substitution in the D3 region of the 28S gene. In terms of the ITS2 region, it has similar inserts and deletions to A. barnardae sp. n. ( Figure 5 ).

Etymology

Named after Dr John Kasenene of Makerere University Biological Field Station, for his knowledge of Kibale and support for the Tropical Biology Association.

Figures

Figure 5. Two fragments of the ITS2 region aligned by eye showing marked differences between species in the Aleiodes buzurae-group. Asterisks and bold font indicate substitutions in length-conserved regions and lines show regions of length variation. Xs indicate uncertainty about number and identity of bases.

Figures 14–19. Automontage photographs of features of the Aleiodes buzurae-group. (14) Aleiodes kasenenei sp. n., habitus; (15)–(19) Aleiodes kanyawarensis sp. n., habitus, face, mesosoma, wings and metasoma, respectively.