Aleiodes agilis (Telenga, 1941)

van Achterberg, Cornelis, Shaw, Mark R. & Quicke, Donald L. J., 2020, Revision of the western Palaearctic species of Aleiodes Wesmael (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae). Part 2: Revision of the A. apicalis group, ZooKeys 919, pp. 1-259 : 1

Aleiodes agilis (Telenga, 1941) Figs 38-39 , 40-49

Rhogas (Rhogas) agilis Telenga, 1941: 165-166, 417.

Rogas agilis ; Shenefelt 1975: 1217.

Rogas (Rogas) agilis ; Tobias, 1976: 83, 1986: 76 (transl. 122, 124) (lectotype designation).

Aleiodes agilis ; Fortier and Shaw 1999: 230.

Aleiodes (Chelonorhogas) agilis ; Ma et al. 2002: 98; Farahani et al. 2015: 240.

Rhogas desertus var. armenica Telenga, 1959: 85; Tobias, 1976: 83 (as synonym of A. agilis (Telenga, 1941)), 1986: 76 (transl. 122, 124; id.).

Type material.

Lectotype, ♀ (ZISP; examined via photos), "Persiya [= Iran], Tavriz, 21.iii.[19]14, Andrievskij", " Rhogas agilis sp. n., N. Telenga det.", "Syntypus agilis Tel.", "Lectotypus Rogas agilis Tel., design. Tobias, 1980"; paralectotype, ♀ (ZISP; id.), " Armenia, pr. Eriwan [= Yerevan], A. Schelkovnikow / Ragakag, 19.iii.[19]25", "Paralectotypus Rhogas agilis Telenga, design. Tobias, 1986". In the original description the latter date is incorrectly cited as 24.vii.1925.

Molecular data.

None.

Biology.

Unknown. It appears to fly very early in the year (March).

Diagnosis.

Maximum width of hypoclypeal depression approx. 0.8 × minimum width of face; anterior part of clypeus very narrow (Fig. 46 ); OOL 1.0-1.3 × diameter of posterior ocellus and coarsely remotely punctate with some weak rugulosity; head and mesosoma (except pronotal side partly and mesoscutum medio-posteriorly and laterally) blackish; mandible massive triangular, coarsely punctate and with thick ventral lamella (Fig. 46 ); face largely transversely rugose and conspicuously whitish setose; frons rugose and shiny; vertex and temple coarsely remotely punctate and shiny; area of precoxal sulcus (but posteriorly superficially) distinctly rugose; lateral lobes of mesoscutum largely smooth (anteriorly becoming densely punctate and somewhat rugose), whitish setose and with satin sheen, middle lobe distinctly punctate; basal half of wings (except anteriorly) largely glabrous and remainder of wing inconspicuously setose; vein r of fore wing approx. 0.6 × vein 3-SR (Fig. 40 ); vein 1-CU1 0.2-0.3 × as long as 2-CU1, narrow and subhorizontal; tarsal claws long, slender, hardly bent and simple (Fig. 44 ); 1st and base of 2nd tergite weakly longitudinally rugulose with some superficial punctures; metasoma dark brown but with yellow patches (Fig. 38 ), clypeus and antenna (except yellow scapus and pedicellus) yellowish brown; legs and palpi pale yellowish, but hind coxa and most of middle coxa dark brown.

Description.

Paralectotype, ♀, length of fore wing 6.6 mm, of body 7.0 mm.

Head. Antennal segments of ♀ 47, antenna as long as body and its subapical segments moderately slender; frons rugose, shiny; OOL 1.3 × diameter of posterior ocellus; OOL and vertex remotely punctate, with satin sheen, OOL also with some rugulae; anterior part of clypeus 9 × wider than high, coarsely punctate and rather convex; clypeus above lower level of eyes; ventral margin of clypeus thick and not protruding forwards (Fig. 48 ); width of hypoclypeal depression 0.8 × minimum width of face (Fig. 46 ); length of eye 1.8 × temple in dorsal view; vertex behind stemmaticum convex and sparsely punctate; length of malar space 0.19 × length of eye in lateral view; occipital carina nearly complete, fine and ventrally strongly curved; mandible massive triangular, coarsely punctate and with thick ventral lamella (Fig. 46 ).

Mesosoma. Lateral lobes of mesoscutum largely smooth, with satin sheen and whitish setose, middle lobe distinctly punctate and setose; prepectal carina complete and lamelliform; precoxal area of mesopleuron widely rugose, but posterior 0.2 narrowly striate; mesopleuron largely weakly and sparsely punctate, shiny, but anteriorly becoming densely punctate and somewhat rugulose; scutellum largely smooth, with some punctures; propodeum evenly convex, finely rugose and with medio-longitudinal carina, without tubercles.

Wings. Fore wing: basal half largely glabrous; r 0.6 × 3-SR (Fig. 40 ); 1-CU1 subhorizontal, 0.25 × as long as 2-CU1; r-m 0.7 × as long as 3-SR; 2ndsubmarginal cell robust (Fig. 40 ); cu-a distinctly inclivous; 1-M weakly curved posteriorly. Hind wing: basal 0.4 of marginal cell slightly widened and distally strongly widened, its apical width approx. twice width at level of hamuli; 2-SC+R subquadrate; m-cu indistinct; M+CU:1-M = 24:19; 1r-m 0.7 × 1-M.

Legs. Tarsal claws slender, slightly curved and only setose (Fig. 44 ); hind coxa partly obliquely striate dorsally; tarsi slender, segments (except telotarsus) with long apical spiny bristles; length of hind femur and basitarsus 5.0 and 6.0 × their width, respectively; length of inner hind spur 0.3 × hind basitarsus.

Metasoma. First tergite robust, as long as wide apically, distinctly narrowed anteriorly and rather flat posteriorly; 1st and 2nd tergites finely longitudinally striate-rugulose; medio-longitudinal carina of 1st and 2nd tergites indistinct; 2nd tergite 0.7 × longer than its basal width; medio-basal area of 2nd tergite wide triangular, rather short; 2nd suture shallow and narrow; 3rd tergite mainly smooth and with satin sheen; 4th and apical half of 3rd tergite without sharp lateral crease; ovipositor sheath rather slender, with short setae and apically truncate (Fig. 39 ).

Colour. Black; pronotal side largely yellowish brown; mesoscutum medio-posteriorly and postero-laterally partly chestnut brown; tegulae, clypeus and antenna (except yellow scapus and pedicellus) yellowish brown; mandible, legs and palpi pale yellowish, but hind coxa and most of middle coxa dark brown; metasoma dark brown but with yellow patches (Fig. 38 ); pterostigma brown medially and dark brown laterally; ovipositor sheath dark brown; veins of fore wing (but pale yellow in basal 0.2 of fore wing) brown; wing membrane hyaline.

Distribution.

Armenia, Iran. Included in this revision, because it may occur in Turkey.

Figures

Figures 38, 39. Aleiodes agilis (Telenga), ♀, paralectotype 38 habitus lateral 39 ovipositor sheath lateral. Photographs by K. Samartsev.

Figures 40 - 49. Aleiodes agilis (Telenga), ♀, paralectotype, but 47 of lectotype 40 wings 41 mesosoma lateral 42 fore femur lateral 43 hind femur lateral 44 outer hind tarsal claw 45 fore leg 46 head anterior 47 head dorso-lateral 48 head lateral 49 base of antenna. Photographs by K. Samartsev.