Aleiodes kanyawarensis 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 : 2673-2674

Aleiodes kanyawarensis Quicke & Shaw , sp. n.

( Figures 15–19 )

Material examined

Holotype: Female, Uganda, Kibale Forest National Park, Kanyawara , viii-2002, reared from mummified, suspended geometrid larva ( NMS)

Description

Length of body 4.4 mm, of fore wing 4.0 mm. Antenna with 41 segments. Width of clypeus:width of face51.0:2.05.

As for A. barnardae sp. n. except for colour. Largely pale honey-yellow, stemmaticum black, antennae except small ventral mark on scape, occiput, propodeum except narrowly laterally and posteriorly, first metasomal tergite except anterior semicircular area and narrowly medio-posteriorly, second metasomal tergite except broadly medially and narrowly laterally, third and fourth tergites except narrowly laterally, apex of hind tibia and hind tarsus brown or brown-black; malar region paler yellow; fore and mid coxae and trochanters yellowwhite; wings clear with dark brown venation and entirely black pterostigma.

Molecular features

Displays two unique sequences in the indel regions of the ITS2 gene ( Figure 5 ).

Etymology

Named after the type locality.

Figures

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 14–19. Automontage photographs of features of the Aleiodes buzurae-group. (14) Aleiodes kasenenei sp. n., habitus; (15)–(19) Aleiodes kanyawarensis sp. n., habitus, face, mesosoma, wings and metasoma, respectively.