<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.405.7402" ID-GBIF-Dataset="57127ecf-70b4-42ab-80a8-db5c6970cc3a" ID-PMC="PMC4023268" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-405-1" ID-PubMed="24843275" ID-ZBK="0EC88104E98F4E999397DB767D38050E" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2014" ModsDocID="1313-2970-405-1" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 405" ModsDocTitle="Twenty-four new species of Aleiodes Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae)" checkinTime="1451245943323" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio & Shaw, Scott Richard" docDate="2014" docId="6D2D26226C166FCD5B5FB312B07D1793" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 405: 1-81" docOrigin="ZooKeys 405" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.405.7402" docTitle="Aleiodes atripileatus Townsend 2009" docType="treatment" docVersion="3" lastPageNumber="18" masterDocId="FF8C5F2CC211FFCEFFD5A74443758641" masterDocTitle="Twenty-four new species of Aleiodes Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae)" masterLastPageNumber="81" masterPageNumber="1" pageNumber="17" updateTime="1668158296605" updateUser="ExternalLinkService"> <mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>Twenty-four new species of Aleiodes Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae)</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Shaw, Scott Richard</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource> <mods:relatedItem type="host"> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:part> <mods:date>2014</mods:date> <mods:detail type="volume"> <mods:number>405</mods:number> </mods:detail> <mods:extent unit="page"> <mods:start>1</mods:start> <mods:end>81</mods:end> </mods:extent> </mods:part> </mods:relatedItem> <mods:location> <mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.405.7402</mods:url> </mods:location> <mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification> <mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.405.7402</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-405-1</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="ZBK">0EC88104E98F4E999397DB767D38050E</mods:identifier> <mods:identifier type="ZooBank">0EC88104E98F4E999397DB767D38050E</mods:identifier> </mods:mods> <treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="152052779" LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:6D2D26226C166FCD5B5FB312B07D1793" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D2D26226C166FCD5B5FB312B07D1793" lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="18" pageId="16" pageNumber="17"> <subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="nomenclature"> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17"> <taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Aleiodes_atripileatus" authority="Townsend, 2009" authorityName="Townsend" authorityYear="2009" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes atripileatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atripileatus">Aleiodes atripileatus Townsend, 2009</taxonomicName> Figures 13-17, 21 </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="diagnosis"> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Diagnosis.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17"> Body length 4.1-4.8 mm; antenna with 36-39 segments; head color black dorsally, light orangish brown ventrally; malar space 1.5 <normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken> basal width of mandible, ocelli small, <normalizedToken originalValue="ocell–ocular">ocell-ocular</normalizedToken> distance 1.7 <normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken> width of lateral ocellus; occipital carina interrupted at vertex; mesopleuron granulate; apex of hind tibia without comb of flattened setae; propodeum mostly rugulose-granulate, with complete median carina; metasomal terga 1-4 entirely dark brown to black; ovipositor sheaths about 2/3 of the hind basitarsus length. </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="additional characters"> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Additional characters.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17"> Last flagellomere with short <normalizedToken originalValue="“bottle-nipple”">"bottle-nipple"</normalizedToken> -like tip; mesoscutum posterior margin with carina only in front of scutellar sulcus; scutellar sulcus with a median plus two or three pairs lateral carina well defined and almost complete; fore wing vein 1M only slightly and evenly curved; hind wing vein 2-1A absent, vein m-cu absent; ovipositor sheaths about 2/3 length of hind basitarsus, one specimen in type series have 2.5/3, and another 1.8/3 proportions for this character. </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="material"> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Material.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Type material examined. (UWIM)</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17"> Non-type material: 3 females and 2 undetermined sex (?), ECUADOR, Napo, Yanayacu Biological Station, Napo Province, <geoCoordinate direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="92" value="-0.59833336">S00°35.9'</geoCoordinate> , <geoCoordinate direction="west" orientation="longitude" precision="92" value="-77.89">W77°53.4'</geoCoordinate> , 2163 m; voucher numbers: ♀, YY-28538: prob. <taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName> ( <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hypena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypena" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Hypena</taxonomicName> sp2) on <taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Urticaceae" genus="Phenax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Phenax rugosus" order="Rosales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rugosus">Phenax rugosus</taxonomicName> ( <taxonomicName genus="Urticaceae" lsidName="Urticaceae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="genus">Urticaceae</taxonomicName> ); ♀, YY-29079: <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hypena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypena" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Hypena</taxonomicName> sp2 ( <taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName> ) on <taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Urticaceae" genus="Boehmeria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Boehmeria" order="Rosales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Boehmeria</taxonomicName> ulmifolia ( <taxonomicName genus="Urticaceae" lsidName="Urticaceae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="genus">Urticaceae</taxonomicName> ); ♀, YY-37062: <taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName> on <taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Urticaceae" genus="Phenax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Phenax rugosus" order="Rosales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rugosus">Phenax rugosus</taxonomicName> ( <taxonomicName genus="Urticaceae" lsidName="Urticaceae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="genus">Urticaceae</taxonomicName> );?, YY-58626: <taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName> on <taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Urticaceae" genus="Phenax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Phenax rugosus" order="Rosales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rugosus">Phenax rugosus</taxonomicName> ( <taxonomicName genus="Urticaceae" lsidName="Urticaceae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="genus">Urticaceae</taxonomicName> );?, YY-63838: <taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName> on <taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Urticaceae" genus="Phenax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Phenax rugosus" order="Rosales" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rugosus">Phenax rugosus</taxonomicName> ( <taxonomicName genus="Urticaceae" lsidName="Urticaceae" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" rank="genus">Urticaceae</taxonomicName> ). (UWIM) </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection lastPageId="17" lastPageNumber="18" pageId="16" pageNumber="17" type="biology"> <paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="17">Biology.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18"> <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes atripileatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atripileatus"> <pageBreakToken pageId="17" pageNumber="18" start="start">Aleiodes</pageBreakToken> atripileatus </taxonomicName> has been reared from a species of <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Noctuidae" genus="Hypena" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hypena" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Hypena</taxonomicName> Schrank ( <taxonomicName family="Noctuidae" lsidName="" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" rank="family">Noctuidae</taxonomicName> ) caterpillars feeding on <taxonomicName genus="Urticaceae" lsidName="Urticaceae" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" rank="genus">Urticaceae</taxonomicName> , including <taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Urticaceae" genus="Phenax" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Phenax rugosus" order="Rosales" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="rugosus">Phenax rugosus</taxonomicName> , <taxonomicName genus="Boemeria" lsidName="Boemeria bullata" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" rank="species" species="bullata">Boemeria bullata</taxonomicName> , <taxonomicName genus="Miriocarpa" lsidName="Miriocarpa" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" rank="genus">Miriocarpa</taxonomicName> sp., and three other unidentified urticaceous plants. Other noctuids on the same host plants might be utilized as hosts. </paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="distribution"> <paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Distribution.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Known only from the YBS, Napo province, ECUADOR, at 2,163 meters elevation.</paragraph> </subSubSection> <subSubSection pageId="17" pageNumber="18" type="discussion"> <paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18">Discussion.</paragraph> <paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18"> <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes atripileatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atripileatus">Aleiodes atripileatus</taxonomicName> is one of the most commonly reared <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Aleiodes</taxonomicName> species in YBS. The species belongs to the circumscriptus/gastritor species-group. It is very similar to <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes nubicola" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nubicola">Aleiodes nubicola</taxonomicName> sp. n. and <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes cacuangoi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cacuangoi">Aleiodes cacuangoi</taxonomicName> sp. n., differing from these two species in having the occipital carina distinctly interrupted at vertex. This character is shared with <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes onyx" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="onyx">Aleiodes onyx</taxonomicName> sp. n., from which it differs by having a black vertex, a thinner metasoma, and the vein m-cu of hind wing absent. Different than originally described, the true sternaulus is absent. </paragraph> <caption pageId="17" pageNumber="18"> <paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="18"> Figures 21. <taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Aleiodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Aleiodes atripileatus" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="17" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="atripileatus">Aleiodes atripileatus</taxonomicName> Townsend wings. </paragraph> </caption> </subSubSection> </treatment> </document>