Aleiodes eadyi, Butcher, Buntika Areekul, Smith, M. Alex, Sharkey, Mike J. & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2012

Butcher, Buntika Areekul, Smith, M. Alex, Sharkey, Mike J. & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2012, A turbo-taxonomic study of Thai Aleiodes (Aleiodes) and Aleiodes (Arcaleiodes) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) based largely on COI barcoded specimens, with rapid descriptions of 179 new species, Zootaxa 3457, pp. 1-232 : 94-95

Aleiodes eadyi sp. nov.

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Holotype ♀, Thailand, “in rice field”, 1961, A. Manjikul (no sequence data) ( BMNH). Body length 4.6 mm, fore wing length 3.8 mm.

Antenna broken in holotype. Median flagellomeres approximately 1.5 x longer than wide. Occipital carina complete, venly rounded dorsally, joining hypostomal carina ventrally. Mesopleuron largely aciculate to finely coriaceous, precoxal sulcus weak and slightly more coarsely sculptured, with medium-sized specular area almost completely devoid of sculpture. Midlongitudinal carina of propodeum complete though weaker on posterior 0.1 just before joining posterior semicircular carina. Fore wing vein 2-CU1 3 x 1-CU1. Apex of fore wing subbasal cell evenly setose. Fore wing vein 3-SR 2 x vein r. Fore wing vein 2-SR+M 1.4 x vein r. Fore wing vein SR1 2.45 x vein 3-SR. Hind wing vein M+CU 1.2 x 1-M. Hind wing subbasal cell evenly setose. Hind wing vein m-cu weak and short, slightly antefurcal. Apex of hind tibia without comb of modified adpressed setae. Claws without conspicuous pecten. Basal lobes of 1 st tergite well developed, rounded anteriorly, steeply angled posteriorly. Midlongitudinal carina of 3 rd tergite hardly more distinct than other longitudinal striation of tergite. 4 th tergite with fine but distinct longitudinal striation superimposed on aciculate background on anterior half.

Etymology. Named after the entomologist Ron Eady who worked at the Natural History Museum, London, 1937–1953.

Figures

FIGURE 66. A. eadyi sp. nov. A, habitus; B, face; C, mesosoma, lateral view; D, head, lateral view; E, head and anterior mesosoma, dorsal view; F, metasoma.