Alloea veles Belokobylskij, 1997

Sohn, Juhyeong, van Achterberg, Cornelis, Kim, Sangjin, Lee, Yerim & Kim, Hyojoong, 2025, A new record of the genus Mesocrina Foerster and a newly-recorded species of genus Alloea Haliday (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from Korea, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 159712-e 159712 : e159712-

Alloea veles Belokobylskij, 1997

Materials

Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; preparations: dry-specimen; occurrenceID: CC5581B4-DAE4-557C-90D7-5FF77F75CF32; Taxon: scientificName: Alloea veles Belokobylskij, 1997 ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera ; family: Braconidae ; genus: Alloea ; specificEpithet: veles ; scientificNameAuthorship: Belokobylskij, 1997; Location: higherGeography: East Asia; country: South Korea; countryCode: KR; stateProvince: Jeollabukdo; municipality: Namwonsi; locality: Mt. Segeolsan ; decimalLatitude: 35.38533888888889; decimalLongitude: 128.5654; Event: year: 2022; month: 6; day: 20; Record Level: institutionCode: NIBR

Description

Female (Fig. 3 ): length of body in lateral view 2.5 mm, length of antenna 2.2 mm and length of fore-wing 2.2 mm.

Colour. Body (Fig. 3 ) entirely black; antenna dark brown, anterior part of segments yellowish-brown; mandible brown.

Head. Antenna (Fig. 3 ) 0.8 times as long as body in female, 23 - segmented. Fourth segment 0.6 times longer than third segment, as long as fifth segment. Width of face (Fig. 3 E) 1.5 times its height from ventral rim of antennal sockets to upper margin of clypeus; face concave medially; face with short setae; eye in dorsal view 1.6 times longer than temple. Ocello-ocular line (OOL) 4.6 times longer than diameter of anterior ocellus; OOL: antero-posterior ocellar line (AOL): postero-ocellar line (POL) = 20: 7: 7. Stemmaticum concave and carina distinct. Mandible with three teeth and rugose (Fig. 3 L); second tooth sharp and narrow, entirely reddish-brown, separated from first tooth; first tooth short, sharp and narrow. Clypeus 1.8 times longer than wide.

Mesosoma. Mesosoma 2.0 times longer than wide in dorsal view, 1.5 times longer than wide in lateral view. Mesosoma (Fig. 3 G) with line-shaped medio-posterior depression; notauli weakly reduced posteriorly; pronotum entirely rugose in dorsal view. Edge of the scutellum with dense posteriorly directed setae; preco ⅹ al sulcus (Fig. 3 F) widely developed, not reaching to posterior part of mesopleuron; mesopleuron entirely glabrous, except few setae present ventrally; in lateral view, metanotum acute medio-dorsally (Fig. 3 L). Maximum length of propodeum (Fig. 3 G) 0.5 times its width; propodeum entirely rugose, medio – longitudinal carina absent; Propodeum without areola. Fore-wing (Fig. 3 C) 2.7 times longer than wide; pterostigma robust, 3.7 times longer than wide; vein r of fore-wing 3.8 times longer than wide; 2 - SR + M absent; vein 2 - SR: vein r: vein 3 - SR = 3: 1: 2.

Leg. Hind co ⅹ a as long as hind trochanter; hind femur width 5.6 times median length in lateral view; 0.7 times as long as hind tibia and as long as tarsus. Arolium not longer than claw.

Metasoma. First tergite entirely rugose, widened posteriorly, 1.4 times longer than its apical width; Setose part of ovipositor sheath short (Fig. 3 I), 0.2 times as long as mesosoma, 0.2 times as long as hind tibia with short setae.

Diagnosis

Differs from other species in Alloea kostaroma by having robust vein r (slender in A. kostroma ) and having robust pterostigma (slender in A. kostroma ).

Distribution

South Korea, Russia ( Belokoblylskij and Tobias 1997).

Figures

Figure 3. Alloea veles Belokobylskij, 1997. Female. A habitus, lateral aspect; B antenna; C wings; D head, dorsal aspect; E head, frontal aspect; F mesosoma, lateral aspect; G mesosoma, dorsal aspect; H first metasomal tergite, dorsal aspect; I ovipositor sheath, lateral aspect; J proximal part of antenna; K mandible, lateral aspect; L acute part of metanotum.