Aleiodes trevelyanae 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 : 2675-2677

Aleiodes trevelyanae Quicke & Shaw , sp. n.

( Figures 20–25 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female, Uganda, Kibale Forest National Park, Kanyawara , August 2002, reared from suspended mummy ( NMS)

Paratype: One female, same locality as holotype, reared August 2002

Description

Length of body 4.1 mm, of fore wing 3.5mm. Antenna with 40 segments.

Otherwise as for Aleiodes barnardae sp. n. except colour. Head, mesosoma and legs largely pale yellow except antenna and dorsal half of scape and pedicellus, stemmaticum, pair of longitudinal submedial stripes on propodeum (holotype) or propodeum largely medially (paratype, Figure 23 ) brown-black; middle part of propodeum yellow-white (holotype); mid tibia and tarsus grey-brown, hind tibia except dorsally on basal third, hind tarsus brown-black, fore and mid coxae and trochanters white-yellow; metasoma white to yellow-white with sublateral dark brown marks on tergites 1–3 and broadly medially on tergite 4. Wing venation largely black-brown, paler on distal veins, pterostigma yellowwhite on basal 0.25 remainder brown-black ( Figures 20 and 24 ). Width of clypeus:width of face51.0:2.3.

Molecular features

Both sequenced individuals possessed a unique substitution in the D3 region of the 28S gene. The CO1 gene fragment sequenced was identical for both individuals and displays 15 unique substitutions, four of which are shown in Figure 4 . Both length variable parts of the ITS2 sequences had indels of unique length and sequence.

Etymology

Named after Dr Rosie Trevelyan, the ‘chief mzungu female’ of the Tropical Biology Association.

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.

Figures 20–25. Automontage photographs of features of Aleiodes trevelyanae sp. n. (20)–(24) Habitus, face, metasoma, mesosoma and wings of holotype; (25) metasoma of paratype.