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{{Publication to wiki notice
 | author = Shimbori, Eduardo Mitio AND Shaw, Scott Richard
 | author_abbreviated = Shimbori E AND Shaw S
 | year = 2014
 | title = Twenty-four new species of ''Aleiodes'' Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae)
 | journal = ZooKeys
 | volume = 405
 | pages = 1--81
 | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.405.7402
 | citationurl = http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/7402/citation/ 
 | url = http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/article/7402/abstract
 | publisher = Pensoft Publishers
 | publisherurl = http://www.pensoft.net/
}}					

{{Treatment start
 | Ordo = 
 | Familia = 
 | Genus = Aleiodes
 | Specific name = greeneyi
 | Infraspecific name = 
 | Taxon rank = 	
 | Taxon authority = Townsend, 2009
 | Taxon status = 
 | Wikispecies page name = Aleiodes_greeneyi
 | Pensoft Profile = Aleiodes_greeneyi
}}

==Diagnosis==
Body length 4.9 mm; antenna with 42 segments; head color honey brown with black ocellar triangle; malar space 1.25× basal width of mandible; ocell–ocular distance about as long as width of lateral ocellus; occipital carina interrupted at vertex; mesopleuron granulate; apex of hind tibia with comb of flattened setae; propodeum strongly punctate with several longitudinally oriented rugae, longitudinal carina complete; metasomal terga 1–2 dark brown, terga 3–4 brown medially and dark brown laterally, reminder terga light brown; ovipositor sheaths about 0.6× hind basitarsus length.

==Additional characters==
Last flagellomere with “bottle-nipple”-like tip; mesoscutum with carina at posterior margin complete although not well defined; scutellar sulcus with complete median carina plus one pair of slightly weaker lateral carina; fore wing vein 1M moderately curved at base; hind wing vein 2-1A indicated as a very short stub, vein m-cu present, interstitial to vein r-m; ovipositor sheaths about as long as hind tarsomere II, 0.6× hind basitarsus.

==Type material examined==
(UWIM)

==Biology==
''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes greeneyi}}'' has been reared from a {{Taxon name|Geometridae}} caterpillar feeding on ''{{Taxon name|Evodianthus funifer}}'' ({{Taxon name|Cyclanthaceae}}).

==Distribution==
Known only from the type locality, YBS, Napo province, ECUADOR.

==Discussion==
''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes greeneyi}}'' is known only by the holotype. It belongs to the ''seriatus'' species-group. The incomplete occipital carina at vertex and the moderate ocelli size are similar to those presented in ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes longikeros}}'' sp. n. and ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes dyeri}}'' sp. n.; however, the wing vein pattern is somewhat intermediate between these two species. ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes greeneyi}}'' differs from ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes longikeros}}'' sp. n. and ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes dyeri}}'' sp. n. in having the pronotum and mesoscutum mostly black (yellow in ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes longikeros}}'' sp. n. and ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes dyeri}}'' sp. n.), and the hind coxa light brown (bicolored black and white in ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes longikeros}}'' sp. n. and ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes dyeri}}'' sp. n.). ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes greeneyi}}'' was reared from geometrid larva. Within the ''seriatus''-group species from Ecuador, ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes nebulosus}}'' and ''{{Taxon name|Aleiodes longikeros}}'' sp. n. were also reared from {{Taxon name|Geometridae}} hosts.					

==Taxon Treatment==
*{{aut|Shimbori, E}}; {{aut|Shaw, S}}; 2014: Twenty-four new species of ''Aleiodes'' Wesmael from the eastern Andes of Ecuador with associated biological information (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rogadinae) [http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/ ''ZooKeys'',] '''405''': 1-81. {{doi|10.3897/zookeys.405.7402}}