taxonID	type	description	language	source
48402771D57FFFB3F8C7FDB8FA34FD81.taxon	type_taxon	Type species (by monotypy): Alloea contracta Haliday, 1833.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57FFFB3F8C7FDB8FA34FD81.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. F 1 much longer than or about as long as F 2 (slightly shorter in A. doiphukhensis); fore wing venation complete in female (1 st subdiscal cell open in male of A. doiphukhensis); median antennomeres expanded in some species and apical antennomeres white in A. doiphukhensis; antenna length variable, shorter than, equal to, or slightly longer than body; ovipositor short to very short, with only extreme apex extending beyond tip of metasoma, but slightly shorter than metasoma in A. cheni.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57FFFB3F8C7FDB8FA34FD81.taxon	discussion	Note. Sexual dimorphism in Alloea species is expressed in the wing and antenna; other characters of the genus were summarized by Wharton & Chou (1985).	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57FFFB3F8C7FDB8FA34FD81.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Palaearctic, Nearctic, Oriental.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57FFFB3F8C7FDB8FA34FD81.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. The sole known host is a species of Lonchopterid (Diptera: Lonchopteridae).	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57DFFB5F8C7FA92FE26FCC1.taxon	description	Fig. 1	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57DFFB5F8C7FA92FE26FCC1.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype, ♂ (QSBG), THAILAND Nan Doi Phu Kha NP Office 3, 19 ° 12.326 ’ N, 101 ° 4.765 ’ E, elevation 1332 m, Malaise trap 15 – 22. VIII. 2007, Charoen & Nikom leg., (H 19863).	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57DFFB5F8C7FA92FE26FCC1.taxon	description	Description (Fig. 1). Holotype, ♂, length of body 1.4 mm, of fore wing 1.8 mm. Head. Length of head 0.7 × its width (Fig. 1 F); occipital carina absent (Fig. 1 F); antenna with 16 antennomeres, scapus robust, 1.3 × wider and 1.6 × longer than pedicellus, F 1 0.9 × F 2, length of F 1, F 2, tenth and penultimate antennomeres 3.8, 7.2, 3.5, 4.0 × their width, respectively (Fig. 1 A); temples slightly protruding (Fig. 1 F); eye glabrous, 1.9 × length of temple in dorsal view (Fig. 1 F); frons smooth, slightly concave medially; vertex and temple smooth; ocelli small, arranged in regular triangle, POL: OD: OOL = 8: 7: 2; length of face 0.8 × its width (Fig. 1 D), face smooth mostly, protruding near antennal sockets, with a wide longitudinal ridge medially, almost complete to clypeus and with sparse rugae medially (Fig. 1 D); clypeus distinctly separated from face, evenly convex and smooth; height of clypeus 0.3 × its width (Fig. 1 D); hypoclypeal depression large, 7.0 × length of tentorio-ocular distance (Fig. 1 D); length of malar space 0.1 × basal width of mandible; mandible smooth and slender, tooth 2 0.4 × length of mandible; tooth 1 slightly shorter than tooth 3, tooth 1 0.2 × and tooth 3 0.3 × length of tooth 2 (Figs 1 C, 1 E). Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.6 × its height; sides of pronotum smooth (Fig. 1 G); mesopleuron convex medially and smooth, precoxal sulcus present in anterior 2 / 3 of mesopleuron and crenulate (Fig. 1 G); metapleuron slightly convex and smooth; mesoscutum smooth, notauli absent dorsally, mid-pit absent (Fig. 1 I); scutellum smooth, nearly hexagon-shaped; scutellar sulcus smooth with one carina (Fig. 1 I); propodeum smooth, with a nearly complete longitudinal ridge and bifurcate in posterior 1 / 5, anterior 1 / 4 with irregular ridges (Fig. 1 I); postpectal carina absent. Wings. Fore wing: pterostigma greatly reduced, linear, slightly wider than vein length, nearly merging with R 1; length of vein R 1 and 3 RSb complete, r: 3 SRa = 1: 4; second submarginal cell long; 3 SRa 2.7 × 2 RS; 1 m-cu slightly postfurcal; vein (RS + M) b short; first subdiscal cell open, vein 1 cu-a, 2 - 1 A, 2 cu-a and 2 CUb absent, 2 Cua present partly (Fig. 1 B). Hind wing: reduced, vein cu-a absent (Fig. 1 B). Legs. Fore and middle legs normal, fore leg spur long and hook shaped and stronger basally than middle leg’s; hind legs lost. Metasoma. T 1 slender, 2.2 x longer than apical width, 3.1 x longer than basal width; T 1 mostly smooth, with a longitudinal bifurcate ridge and two lateral ridges (Fig. 1 J); dorsope positioned in anterior 1 / 3, deep and long (Fig. 1 H); T 2 concave basally, the remaining metasoma smooth, with sparse, long setae (Fig. 1 J). Colour. Body dark yellow to brown, head brown dorsally; face yellowish brown; mandible yellow; maxillary and labial palps white; antenna mostly brown, scapus and pedicellus yellow, apical two antennomeres white, apical third 1 / 2 white and 1 / 2 light brown; wings hyaline, stigma and veins white; legs light yellow, tarsi and claws brown; mesosoma and metasoma yellowish brown dorsally, mesopleuron brown, sides of mesoscutum and propleuron yellow. Female: Unknown.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57DFFB5F8C7FA92FE26FCC1.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Thailand (Nan).	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57DFFB5F8C7FA92FE26FCC1.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Unknown.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57DFFB5F8C7FA92FE26FCC1.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species is named after the location (Doi Phu Kha National Park, Nan, Thailand) where the type species was collected.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57BFFB7F8C7FC18FE0EFE71.taxon	description	Fig. 2	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57BFFB7F8C7FC18FE0EFE71.taxon	materials_examined	Material. 1 ♀ (BIIC), CHINA, Fujian Longqishan Bishichang, sweep net, 21. VIII. 2010, Yingying Zhao.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57BFFB7F8C7FC18FE0EFE71.taxon	description	Description (Fig. 2). Body length 2.1 mm; fore wing length 2.0 mm. Head. Length of head 0.7 × its width (Fig. 2 D); occipital carina absent (Fig. 2 E); antenna with 24 antennomeres, scapus robust, 1.3 × wider and 1.3 × longer than pedicellus, F 1 1.1 × F 2, length of F 1, F 2 4.0, 3.0 × their widths, respectively (Fig. 2 A); eye slightly protruding (Fig. 2 E), glabrous, 1.7 × length of temple in dorsal view (Fig. 2 D); frons smooth, slightly concave medially; vertex and temple smooth; ocelli small, arranged in regular triangle, POL: OD: OOL = 8: 4: 3; length of face 0.8 × its width (Figs 2 A, 2 C); face mostly smooth, sparsely punctate with long setae, protruding near antennal sockets, with a narrow longitudinal ridge medially (Fig. 2 C); clypeus distinctly separated from face, evenly convex and smooth, truncate apicomedially, height of clypeus 0.3 × its width (Fig. 2 C); hypoclypeal depression large, 1.6 × length of tentorio-ocular distance; length of malar space 0.5 × basal width of mandible (Fig. 2 B); mandible smooth and slender, tooth 2 0.4 × length of mandible, tooth 1 slightly shorter than tooth 3, 0.5 × width of tooth 3; tooth 1 0.2 × and tooth 3 0.6 × length of tooth 2; maxillary palps longer than head (Fig. 2 C). Mesosoma. Length of mesosoma 1.4 × its height; sides of pronotum mostly smooth, crenulate dorsally with a long ridge; mesopleuron smooth and convex medially, precoxal sulcus present in anterior 3 / 4 of mesopleuron and crenulate (Fig. 2 C); metapleuron slightly convex and smooth; mesoscutum smooth, punctate along notaulus trace and mid-pit, with sparse setae; notauli present anterodorsally, mid-pit deep and round, 0.5 × length of scutellar sulcus (Figs 2 B, 2 E); scutellum smooth, nearly triangular; scutellar sulcus smooth, with one carina and shallow rugae (Fig. 2 B); propodeum smooth, with a complete longitudinal ridge, anterior 1 / 3 with shallow rugae and a short transverse ridge medially (Fig. 2 G); postpectal carina absent. Wing. Fore wing: pterostigma greatly reduced, linear, slightly wider than vein length, blending imperceptibly with R 1; 3 RSb weakly recurved, nearly straight, ending at wing tip; r: 3 SRa = 1: 5; second submarginal cell long; 3 SRa 2.4 × 2 RS; 1 m-cu strongly postfurcal; vein (RS + M) b long, 1 / 3 length of vein (RS + M) a; 1 M 1.4 x longer than (RS + M) a; first subdiscal cell closed, 1 cu-a slightly postfurcal; 2 CUb arising from near middle of brachial cell and reduced, almost absent (Figs 2 F, 2 H). Hind wing: vein 1 M 0.5 x length of M + CU, 1.8 x longer than 1 r-m. Legs. Legs normal, hind coxa smooth; hind femur about 5.0 x longer than wide (Figs 2 A, 2 F). Metasoma. T 1 1.6 x longer than apical width, 2.4 x longer than basal width; T 1 with two complete longitudinal ridges, basal half smooth, apical half with short longitudinal ridges; dorsope positioned at midlength of T 1, deep and long (Fig. 2 B); T 2 concave basally, with two inwardly inclined grooves, the remaining metasoma smooth (Fig. 2 G); ovipositor sheath slightly shorter than metasoma, with sparse short hairs apically (Fig. 2 A). Color. Body yellowish brown to brown, head brown; mandible yellow; clypeus yellowish brown; maxillary and labial palps white; antenna mostly brown, scapus and pedicellus yellowish brown; wings hyaline, pterostigma and veins white; legs light yellow, tarsi and claws brown; mesosoma reddish brown, metasoma yellowish brown, propleuron yellowish brown, mesopleuron reddish brown. Male: Unknown.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57BFFB7F8C7FC18FE0EFE71.taxon	distribution	Distribution. China (Fujian).	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
48402771D57BFFB7F8C7FC18FE0EFE71.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Unknown.	en	Yao, Junli, Yu, Haiyue (2025): Revisional notes on Alloea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) with a new species for Thailand and detailed English description of Alloea cheni from China. Zootaxa 5737 (4): 573-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5737.4.7
