Notogaster, a new genus of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from New Zealand
Author
Fernández-Triana, Jose L.
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0425 - 0309
Author
Ward, Darren F.
New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand & School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-06-18
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251
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journal article
21637
10.11646/zootaxa.4801.2.3
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1175-5326
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Notogaster wornerae
Fernandez-Triana & Ward
,
sp. nov.
(
Figs 21
A–H)
Holotype
.
Male
(
LUNZ
),
NEW ZEALAND
,
Stewart Island
,
Table Hill
,
Rakeahua
track,
-47.0032
167.8004
, sweeping,
8/2/1991
,
S.P. Worner.
Diagnostic description.
Mesosoma entirely to mostly dark (dark brown or black), lighter areas very small and localized; metasoma dorsally entirely dark (brown or black); gena with relatively large and clear pale spot; tegula dark; first two pairs of legs mostly dark (brown to black); metacoxa dark; metafemur mostly pale (yellow, orange or light yellow-brown); metatibia mostly yellow;
T
2 mostly sculptured. See
Table 1
for additional morphological measurements.
Notogaster wornerae
is probably the most distinguishable species in the genus, based on the trapezoidal shape of
T
2 (its width at posterior margin 1.2 × its median length) and fore wing vein 1CUa comparatively very short (0.33 × as long as vein 1CUb). It is also the only species known from Stewart Island.
Molecular data.
There are no DNA barcode sequences in
BOLD
for this species.
Distribution.
Only known from a single specimen from Stewart Island (
Fig. 9
).
Etymology.
Named after Sue Worner, the collector of the
type
specimen, for her contribution to entomology in
New Zealand
.