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Zootaxa, Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Aleiodes Zootaxa 656: 1–10 (2004) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 656 Copyright © 2004 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Two new Eastern North American species of the Aleiodes coxalis (Spinola) species-group (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Rogadinae) reared from Geometridae SCOTT R. SHAW & PAUL M. MARSH (SRS) Insect Museum, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071-3354 U.S.A. [email protected] (PMM) 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.) [email protected] Abstract Two new species in the Aleiodes coxalis species-group are described from eastern North America: Aleiodes itamevorus and Aleiodes maritimus. Both are primary koinobiont parasitoids of Geometridae caterpillars, utilizing hosts from the genera Itame and Semiothisa. Key words: Taxonomy, descriptions, new species, Aleiodes, Braconidae Introduction The rogadine braconid genus Aleiodes Wesmael is worldwide in distribution, but is partic- ularly species-rich in the Holarctic Region. Aleiodes is well diversified in North America, with at least 90 species in the United States and Canada (S. Shaw et al. 1997). This study is a contribution to a series of revisionary papers on Aleiodes species-groups for North America (see S. Shaw et al. 1997, 1998a, 1998b; Marsh & S. Shaw 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003). The coxalis species-group, as treated in this paper, is a large monophyletic group distinguished by the rugose vertex (Figs. 1–2) and sculptured fourth metasomal tergum (Figs 5–6) (Fortier & Shaw 1999). In a broad sense, the coxalis species-group includes at least 18 named species (Fortier & Shaw 1999), four of which are now known from North America. Further it should be defined as including the “genus” Tetrasphaeropyx Ash- mead, which is derived from within this lineage (Fortier & Shaw 1999). The species of the Tetrasphaeropyx lineage are excluded from this paper because they are currently being revised by Joseph Fortier at St. Louis University. The two new species described here are Accepted by J.B. Whitfield: 15 Sept. 2004; published: 27 Sept. 2004 1.
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