1985] 
Porter — Trachysphyrus & Aeliopotes 
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Fig. 17. Aeliopotes paitensis, 9. Photograph showing entire insect in lateral view. 
gently receding and convex; surface with small, sharp, numerous 
punctures that are separated by more than 2X their diameters and 
which emit long but not shaggy setae. Mesoscutum: notauli 0.3-0. 5 
as long as mesoscutum. Lower metapleuron: with coarse wrinkling 
which is more irregular and reticulate than in female. Wing vena- 
tion; nervellus broken at middle. Propodeum: lower and longer than 
in female; apical face vertical but only 0.6 as long as basal face; basal 
trans-carina strong and sharp throughout; median longitudinal 
carinae faint; areola approximately 0.6 as wide as long; cristae 
bluntly cuneate, broad, rather strongly projecting. First gastric ter- 
gite: postpetiole 1.2- 1.4 as wide apically as long from spiracle to 
apex; dorsal carinae traceable but not sharp on apex of petiole and 
basal 0.7 of postpetiole and there defining a broad but inconspicu- 
ous median elevation; setae on postpetiole largely shorter than the 
length of their interspaces. Second gastric tergite: thyridium ovoid; 
surface, much as in female, •with minute punctures and short setae 
that become moderately dense only laterad. 
Type Material. Holotype 9 : CHILE, Tarapaca Province, 
Socoroma, 3000 m, VII- 1 977, Malaise Trap, C. Porter, G. Diaz. 
