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Vol. 47 No. 3, 2008
Description of Adults, Preimaginal Phases, and the Venom
Apparatus of a New Species of Aspilota Förster from Spain (Hymenoptera:
Braconidae)
Maximilian
Fischer1, Josep Tormos2, Xavier Pardo3, and Josep Daniel Asís2,*
1Naturhistorisches
Museum Wien, Zweite Zoologische Abteilung (Insekten), Burgring 7,
A-1010 Wien, Postfach 417, Austria
2Unidad de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad
de Salamanca, 37071-Salamanca, Spain
3Universitat de Valčncia, Institut Cavanilles de
Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva, Apartat Oficial 2085-46071
Valčncia, Spain
Maximilian
Fischer, Josep Tormos, Xavier Pardo, and Josep Daniel Asís (2008)
The adults, egg, preimaginal stages, and venom apparatus of Aspilota
propeminimam sp. nov. are described and compared with those of allied
species. The new species is an endoparasitoid and was reared from
sarcophagid flies, Sarcophaga carnaria (Linnaeus), that had infested a
rat carcass in Spain. Morphological structures of potential
phylogenetic value are discussed, and a key for the discrimination of
the imagines is provided. Additionally, the different phases and
preimaginal stages of the Alysiinae are described and characterized;
the following characters that define the mature larvae of Aspilota
Förster and some of its closest genera (e.g., Dinotrema Förster and
Eudinostigma Tobias) are provided: (a) tegument smooth, (b) epistoma
and epistomal arch complete, (c) mandibles straight and thorn-shaped,
(d) mandibular blade without teeth, (e) labial sclerite completely
reduced, (f) only mandibles and palpi present and clearly
differentiated, (g) all cephalic structures non-sclerotized, except for
epistoma, hypostoma, and mandibles, and (h) spiracles with
differentiated atrium and closing apparatus; closing apparatus not
close to atrium.
Key words: Hymenoptera,
Preimaginal phases, Aspilota, Venom apparatus, New species
*Correspondence: Tel: 34-923-294463. Fax:
34-923-294515. E-mail:tormos@usal.es
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