Revision of Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) with reappraisal of subgeneric limits, descriptions of new species and phylogenetic analysis
Author
Areekul-Butcher, Buntika
Author
Quicke, Donald L. J.
text
Journal of Natural History
2011
2011-06-30
45
21 - 24
1403
1476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2011.557557
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2011.557557
1464-5262
5203720
Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) nigricans
(Chen and He)
comb. nov.
Hemigyroneuron nigricans
Chen and He, 1997: 71
.
Material examined
None. Xue-Xin Chen kindly provided additional information to that given in the original description enabling it to be run through the identification key correctly.
Notes
This species is the only one to date known from
China
, and has a unique colour pattern among the known species being largely brown-black with red-brown markings on the mesopleuron and mesosternum, red-yellow markings on the 1st metasomal tergite, and red-yellow legs.