Suspended mummies in Aleiodes species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) with descriptions of six new species from western Uganda based largely on DNA sequence data
Author
Quicke, Donald L. J.
Author
Mori, Miharu
Author
Riverón, Alejandro Zaldivar-
Author
Laurenne, Nina M.
Author
Shaw, Mark R.
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Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-30
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47 - 48
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601121288
journal article
10.1080/00222930601121288
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Aleiodes kanyawarensis
Quicke & Shaw
,
sp. n.
(
Figures 15–19
)
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.
Material examined
Holotype
:
Female
,
Uganda
,
Kibale
Forest National Park
,
Kanyawara
,
viii-2002
, reared from mummified, suspended geometrid larva (
NMS
)
Description
Length of body
4.4 mm
, of fore wing 4.0 mm. Antenna with 41 segments. Width of clypeus:width of face51.0:2.05.
As for
A. barnardae
sp. n.
except for colour. Largely pale honey-yellow, stemmaticum black, antennae except small ventral mark on scape, occiput, propodeum except narrowly laterally and posteriorly, first metasomal tergite except anterior semicircular area and narrowly medio-posteriorly, second metasomal tergite except broadly medially and narrowly laterally, third and fourth tergites except narrowly laterally, apex of hind tibia and hind tarsus brown or brown-black; malar region paler yellow; fore and mid coxae and trochanters yellowwhite; wings clear with dark brown venation and entirely black pterostigma.
Molecular features
Displays two unique sequences in the indel regions of the ITS2 gene (
Figure 5
).
Etymology
Named after the
type
locality.