Aleiodes glandularis Butcher & Quicke, 2011

Quicke, Donald L. J. & Butcher, Buntika A., 2018, Description of Aleiodes (Hemigyroneuron) dangerlingi n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) from New South Wales, Australia, and first description of female of A. (H.) glandularis Butcher & Quicke from South Africa, Israel Journal of Entomology 48 (2), pp. 23-31 : 27-29

Aleiodes glandularis Butcher & Quicke, 2011

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Diagnosis: Subbasal cell with large oval glabrous expansion distally formed of thickened veins, demarked basally by spurious vein arising from M+CU, with single large brown “D”-shaped sclerome with some ventral setae; vein 1CUa (=1-CU1) approximately 1.25× length of 1CUb (=2-CU1); vein 1-1A without a posteriorly directed spur; veins 1CUb, 1CUb and 2-1A dark to very dark brown contrasting with adjacent venation; head yellow except for stemmaticum.

Description (only sexual differences and features not present in male holotype): Antenna with 55 flagellomeres. Terminal flagellomere approximately twice as long as penultimate flagellomere, strongly acuminate. Width of head: width of face: height of eye = 1.0:0.38: 0.6. Malar space 0.13× height of eye. Inter-tentorial distance 2.25× shortest distance between anterior tentorial pit and eye. Ocelli very large; shortest distance between posterior ocelli: transverse diameter of posterior ocellus: shortest distance between posterior ocellus and eye = 1.0:13.0: 2.0. Metasoma narrower, 2 nd tergite 1.9× wider than medially long; 1.1× longer medially than 3 rd tergite. Ovipositor sheath sub-triangular, more or less square-ended, glabrous dorsally.

Coloration. Essentially the same as male holotype except dark patterning of wing membrane and venation markedly darker and more contrasting.

Measurements. Length, body 9.0 mm, fore wing 8.5 mm and antenna 7.8 mm.

Material examined: South Africa: Holotype ♂ “ SOUTH AFRICA, Tvl [Transvaal], Soutpan, Pretoria District . 25.24S 28.05E. 20.xi.1985 J.S. Donaldson ” ( SANC); 1♀ with labels “subset of Lot# L# 12SAFR­0002, ZAF: Gauteng: Hekpoort: 25.9383° S 27.6389° E 1420 m asl 14-Feb-12 col. P. Hebert, J. Dewaard” and “ Barcode of Life , DNA voucher specimen, Smple ID: BIOUG02322 -E10, BOLD Proc.ID: HYSAF058-12 ” ( CBDG).