Systematic revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) for Australia results in a ten-fold increase in species
Author
Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.
C724E269-029E-49E8-8D95-6F5A5DA6BAAF
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia. & South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.
erinn.fagan-jeffries@adelaide.edu.au
Author
McCLELLAND, Alana R.
3FDC78D1-CDF3-472F-B4EE-63A43C1730AF
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia.
alana.mcclelland@adelaide.edu.au
Author
Bird, Andrew J.
DC97FEB2-1BB0-48CE-9178-0C5F98131CC0
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia.
andrewbird@ozemail.com.au
Author
Giannotta, Madalene M.
FF66BA72-4585-402F-AA42-61C9B7856048
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Black Mountain, ACT, Australia and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia.
madalene.giannotta@gmail.com
Author
Bradford, Tessa M.
D018F430-ED59-47BA-BF6A-EF8C6675AC20
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia. & South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.
tessa.bradford@samuseum.sa.gov.au
Author
Austin, Andrew D.
DE71F924-750D-490D-84A7-F5960066F7CC
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology & Biodiversity and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Australia. & South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.
andrew.austin@adelaide.edu.au
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-02-08
792
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.792.1647
journal article
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Glyptapanteles goodwinnoakes
Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin
sp. nov.
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Fig. 36
Diagnosis
Glyptapanteles goodwinnoakes
sp. nov.
can be separated from the other members of the
G. arcanus
species group by having the propodeum with generally coarser sculpturing than most species other than
G. erucadesolator
sp. nov.
,
G. lambkinae
sp. nov.
,
G. arcanus
sp. nov.
and
G. vergrandiacus
sp. nov.
a
nd with T1 smooth (in all four of the previously mentioned species, T1 is either rugose or at least clearly punctured in the posterior half). It is noted, however, that all these species are morphologically very similar; limited specimens were available for examination and identifications should be made or corroborated with DNA barcodes.
Etymology
This species is named for Alison Goodwin and Roger Noakes, who ran a Malaise trap on their property near Bendemeer, NSW, from which a
paratype
of the species originates. It is a noun in apposition.
Material examined
Holotype
AUSTRALIA
•
♀
;
Queensland
,
Lonesome National Park
;
-25.495
,
148.812
;
585 m
a.s.l.
;
3–26 Nov. 2010
;
C. Lambkin
et al
. leg.;
near lookout (LNP
4m
), closed
Eucalyptus
woodland on rocky ridge
,
Malaise trap
; Extraction647, BOLD: AUMIC425-18;
QM T208399
.
Paratypes
AUSTRALIA
-
New South Wales
•
1 ♀
;
Bendemeer
;
-30.819
,
151.142
;
840 m
a.s.l.
;
9–23 Feb. 2020
;
A. Goodwin
and
R. Noakes
leg.;
Malaise trap
,
remnant bushland on cattle-grazed property
; Extraction923, BOLD: AUGLY018-21;
QM T250956
. –
Queensland
•
1 ♀
;
West Quinkan
,
Bush Blitz Site F3
;
-15.812550
,
144.41974
;
495 m
a.s.l.
;
6–15 Mar. 2017
;
B. Baehr
leg.;
open woodland
; Extraction895, BOLD: AUGLY017-21;
QM T250957
.
Description
Female
COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum mostly dark; scape colour in ventral half uniformly paler than flagellomeres; flagellomeres all black/dark brown; tegula light brown; wing veins uniformly black or brown, or with small lighter area proximally; anteromesoscutum all dark, or dark with very slight orange patches on posterolateral corners; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa dark; mid coxa dark; hind coxa dark; fore femur pale yellow; mid femur orange to light brown; hind femur dark reddish-brown or orange to light brown; fore tibia pale yellow; mid tibia orange to light brown; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus dark reddish-brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler or dark extends past indentation, but then pale; T3 dark; T4+ dark.
HOLOTYPE
BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length
2.2 mm
; fore wing length
2.1 mm
; antennal length similar to body length.
HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.50–1.66; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 2.62– 3.50; OOD/POD 1.71–2.00; IOD/POD 1.43–1.67.
MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with shallow to deep punctures, space between punctures a mixture of smaller than diameter of punctures and of similar size. Often smoother in posterior centre; scutellar disk sculpturing with shallow punctures scattered over most of area; 8–10 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent and propodeum strongly rugose, coarse sculpturing over most of propodeum, sometimes sculpturing clearly deeper in a ‘v’ shape with smooth anterior centre area.
WINGS. Pterostigma length
0.46 mm
; pterostigma width
0.15 mm
; r
0.17 mm
; 2RS
0.12 mm
;
2m
0.07 mm
; (RS+M)b
0.08 mm
.
METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior ½ to ⅔ of length, then narrowing posteriorly; T1 smooth and shiny, a few scattered punctures; T1 length
0.34 mm
; T1 width at posterior edge
0.11 mm
; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length
0.17 mm
; T2 width at posterior edge
0.12 mm
; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.
Male
Unknown.
Remarks
The
wingless
barcode for this species is shared with
G. doreyi
sp. nov.
and
G. arcanus
sp. nov.
and differs by 1 bp from the barcodes of
G. vergrandiacus
sp. nov.
,
G. doreyi
sp. nov.
(second haplotype) and
G. lessardi
sp. nov.
This group of species is very closely related and would benefit from future, more detailed taxonomic work to ensure that they are not simply divergent populations of the same species. For this species hypothesis, we have made the decision to split them into different species based on the
COI
barcode sequences being>3% divergent; however, we note that this is a hypothesis and is open to change with future work.
Glyptapanteles goodwinnoakes
sp. nov.
constitutes BIN BOLD:ADL3801 and is 3.69% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:AEI4383; an undescribed lineage, from
Australia
).
Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the
COI
sequence of the
holotype
is 6.1% different from the most similar
COI
sequence from an Australian specimen (AUGLY141-21; an undescribed lineage, with a single specimen).
Distribution
This species has a very disjunct distribution, found in northern QLD and in central NSW. This likely reflects poor sampling rather than the true species distribution.