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Issue: Vol. 1314 No. 1: 14 Sept. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1314.1.1
Page range: 1–30
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Revision of Nearctic Aleiodes Wesmael (Part 8): the coxalis (Spinola) Species-Group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Rogadinae)

Insect Museum, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3354 U.S.A.
Cooperating Scientist, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory, c/o National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560 U.S.A. (correspondence address: P. O. Box 384, North Newton, Kansas 67117 U.S.A.)
Department of Biology, Saint Louis University, 3507 Lacleade Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63013 U.S.A.
Hymenoptera Braconidae Aleiodes parasitoids new species

Abstract

The Aleiodes coxalis (Spinola) species-group is defined as including the following previously described species: A. coxalis (Spinola) 1808, A. bicolor (Spinola) 1808, signatus (Nees) 1812, A. alternator (Nees) 1834, A. tristis Wesmael 1838, A. aciculatus Cresson 1869, A. sanctihyacinthi (Provancher) 1880, A. arcticus (Thomson) 1891, A. incertus (Kokoujev) 1898, A. jakolewi (Kokoujev) 1898, A. coxator (Telenga) 1941, A. incertoides (Telenga) 1941, A. satanus (Telenga) 1941, A. nunbergi (Noskiewicz) 1956, A. negativus (Tobias) 1961, A. hellenicus (Papp) 1985, A. moldavicus (Tobias) 1986, A. itamevorus Shaw and Marsh 2004, and A. maritimus Shaw and Marsh 2004. Nine new North American species are described in this paper: A. aquilonius NEW SPECIES, A. brevis NEW SPECIES, A. cultrarius NEW SPECIES, A. dichromatus NEW SPECIES, A. floridensis NEW SPECIES, A. quadratus NEW SPECIES, A. shenefelti NEW SPECIES, A. whartoni NEW SPECIES, and A. wyomingensis NEW SPECIES. The A. coxalis species group is regarded as monophyletic as distinguished by the rugose vertex and sculptured fourth metasomal tergum. An identification key, descriptions, illustrations, distribution and biological information are provided for thirteen North American species.

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