A new Australian genus and five new species of Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), one reared as a gregarious endoparasitoid of an unidentified limacodid (Lepidoptera)
Author
Quicke, Donald L. J.
Author
Shaw, Mark R.
Author
Achterberg, Cornelis Van
Author
Bland, Keith P.
Author
Butcher, Buntika A.
Author
Lyszkowski, Richard
Author
Zhang, Y. Miles
text
Zootaxa
2014
3881
3
237
257
journal article
42281
10.11646/zootaxa.3881.3.3
cf9c8b71-e483-4727-a03f-e7f53590185b
1175-5326
252273
4B7B9770-424F-45A5-8244-67781C74728F
Teresirogas prestonae
Quicke
& van Achterberg sp. nov.
(
Figs 9–10
)
Holotype
♀ (
ANIC
) “
4 mi
. W. of Coolibah HS, N.T.,
15.34S
130.54E
,
21 June 1968
, M. Mendum”.
Paratypes
: 1♀, “W.A., Homestead, Beverley Springs,
16.35S
125.29E
,
31.v.1993
, E.D, Edwards” (
ANIC
); 1♀, “Qld.,
7 km
E Laura,
15.35S
144.30E
,
27.v.1993
, at light, P. Zborowski & A. Roach” (
ANIC
) 1♀, “
18 km
NE by E Heathlands, Q.,
11.40S
142.43E
,
19.iii.1992
, E.D. Edwards” (
RMNH
).
Female. Body length
7.6 mm
, fore wing length
6.8 mm
.
Median carina of propodeum reduced. Fore wing vein 1cu-a distinctly antefurcal to subinterstitial. Vein 2-CU1 distinctly curved. Basal lobes of claws reduced.
Coloration. Head (except stemmaticum) and mesosoma orange, coloration otherwise rather variable; metasomal tergite 1 entirely pale (ivory), only basal half dark brown, or up to basal two-thirds dark brown; tergite 2 entirely pale or laterally partly darkened.
Etymology.
Named after the influential Australian modernist artist, Margaret Preston (
1875–1973
), well known for her highly colourful paintings.