6. Rhogas siccitesta Morley 1937

(Figs 6, 7)

Current combination. Aleiodes siccitesta (Morley 1937) ( Braconidae: Rogadinae) new combination

Material examined. Rhogas siccitesta ♂(?) holotype, NHMUK, India: ‘TYPE’; ‘♂’; ‘♂’; ‘ ♀ co-type given Brit. Mus. 12 iii 37’; ‘B.M. Type Hym. 3c.2295’; ‘ NHMUK010635174 ’; ♀ paratype, NHMUK, India: ‘ Co-type C.M. ’; ‘CM. Named by Claude Morley. Rhogas siccitesta Morl Entom. Nov. 1937 ♀ co-type: iii.37’; ‘ NHMUK010635175 ’; four host mummies with emergence holes .

Comments. This species belongs in Aleiodes, in the Aleiodes praetor species group sensu Fortier & Shaw (1999), so Aleiodes siccitesta (Morley 1937) is a new combination. Morley (1937) specified that his description was based on six (‘a half-dozen’) male and female specimens, with a type and co-types, although he didn’t specify which was the holotype. One female paratype was pinned and transferred to NHMUK in 1937 (NHMUK010635175; Fig. 7) with some or all of the other specimens glued to one piece of card, which was later acquired by NHMUK.All specimens from this card are missing, with the exception of a hind wing and part of a fore wing (Fig. 6); the hind wing is directly below a handwritten ‘TYPE’ and above a male symbol. This specimen should be regarded as the holotype (3c.2295); it is still identifiable based on the remnant of the distinctive hind wing and a host mummy probably belongs with the holotype specimen. The mostly intact paratype female (NHMUK010635175) and a mummy from which it or possibly another type specimen emerged (NHMUK010635176) are shown in Fig. 7. There are two other paratype mummies, lacking adult wasps. The host was reported by Morley (1937) to be Daphnis nerii (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera: Sphingidae); the Aleiodes praetor species group seem to be exclusively parasitoids of Sphingidae (Shaw et al. 1998; van Achterberg & Shaw 2016).