Aleiodes basutai Quicke & Shaw, 2006

Quicke, Donald L. J., Mori, Miharu, Riverón, Alejandro Zaldivar-, Laurenne, Nina M. & Shaw, Mark R., 2006, Suspended mummies in Aleiodes species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) with descriptions of six new species from western Uganda based largely on DNA sequence data, Journal of Natural History 40 (47 - 48), pp. 2663-2680 : 2672-2673

Aleiodes basutai Quicke & Shaw , sp. n.

( Figures 10–13 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female, Uganda, Kibale Forest National Park, Kanyawara , viii-2003, reared from mummified, suspended geometrid larva ( NMS)

Description

Length of body 4.2 mm, of fore wing 4.0 mm. Antenna with 41 segments. Width of clypeus:width of face51.0:2.4.

Morphologically like A. barnardae sp. n. (q.v.) except for colour (see key).

Molecular features

Displays nine unique base substitutions in the CO1 gene fragment, of which one is shown in Figure 4 . The ITS2 fragment shows five unique substitutions in the length-conserved part ( Figure 5 , upper panel) and an indel of unique length ( Figure 5 , lower panel).

Etymology

Named after Dr Gill Basuta of Makerere Biological Field Station, for his help and great knowledge and enthusiasm at Kibale.

Figures

Figure 4. Selected contiguous fragment of the CO1 gene in individuals of the Aleiodes buzurae-group from Uganda and Kenya with bold characters indicating substitutions. Asterisks show phylogenetically informative substitutions at species level; exclamation marks show apomorphies for individual species in the buzarae group and $ sites that have both unique and informative variation.

Figure 5. Two fragments of the ITS2 region aligned by eye showing marked differences between species in the Aleiodes buzurae-group. Asterisks and bold font indicate substitutions in length-conserved regions and lines show regions of length variation. Xs indicate uncertainty about number and identity of bases.

Figures 10–13. Automontage photographs of features of Aleiodes busutai sp. n., habitus, head lateral aspect, metasoma and mesosoma, respectively.