An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland
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Fernandez-Triana, Jose
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Buffam, Joel
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Beaudin, Melanie
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Davis, Hannah
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Ana Fernandez-Galliano,
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Griffin, Emily
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Lin, Shang-Yao
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McAulay, Megan K.
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Richter, Robin
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Rodriguez, Freddy
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Varkonyi, Gergely
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ZooKeys
2017
691
49
101
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.691.14491
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.691.14491
1313-2970-691-49
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Micro plitis sp. nr. sofron
Fig. 30
Distribution
.
NEA. Probably a High Arctic endemic.
Figure 30.
Microplitis sp. near sofron
. A Habitus, lateral B Fore wing C Mesosoma, dorsal D Head, frontal E Metasoma, dorsal.
Notes.
A total of 12 specimens from Banks and Victoria Islands. This species will run to
M. sofron
in the keys provided by
Nixon (1970)
,
Papp (1984)
, and
van Achterberg (2006)
. However, its metatibia is not bright yellow, and the shape of mediotergite 1 does not resemble the illustration of
Papp (1984
: figure 83). The color of metatibia and shape of mediotergite 1 are actually closer to
M. lugubroides
, but from that species it differs in the length of the last flagellomere, the main feature that van Achterberg used to separate
M. sofron
from
M. lugubroides
. The Canadian specimens probably represent a new species, but without examining the types of
sofron
and
lugubroides
we cannot be certain. No DNA sequences are available for this species.