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<mods:title>Eight new species and an annotated checklist of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from Canada and Alaska</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:28705735-DE76-4BDD-AC43-65DF217462F2" authority="Fernandez-Triana" class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">
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Apanteles masmithi
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Fernández-Triana">Fernandez-Triana</normalizedToken>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="8" pageNumber="9">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 13, 14
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Type locality.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Canada, Ontario, London, 42°59'1.32"N, 81°14'58.92"W.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype. Female (CNC), with first label as follows: London, ON, 23.viii.1953, W.W. Judd, on
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Typhaceae" genus="Typha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Typha" order="Poales" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Typha</taxonomicName>
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heads; second label (yellow) with a code: 54-B-4; third label with a provisional identification by Mason (1955); fourth label with Specimen ID: MIC 000048. CNC TYPE 23937.
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Paratypes (CNC): 3 #F from London, ON, 23.viii.1953, W.W. Judd, on
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Typhaceae" genus="Typha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Typha" order="Poales" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Typha</taxonomicName>
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heads, one of those specimens with a third label with Specimen IDs: MIC 000049; 5 #F, 6 #M from Digby, NS, 28.viii.1959, P.H.H. Gray, ex
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cosmopterigidae" genus="Limnaecia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Limnaecia phragmitella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="phragmitella">Limnaecia phragmitella</taxonomicName>
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, four of those specimens with a third label with Specimen IDs: MIC 000050, MIC 000051, MIC 000052 (3 #F), and MIC 000054 (1 #M); 5 #F, 1 #M from Lunenburg, NS, vi-vii.1969, B. Wright, ex
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<taxonomicName family="Gelechidae" lsidName="" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="family">Gelechidae</taxonomicName>
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larvae on cat-tail heads, two of those specimens with a third label with Specimen IDs: MIC 000053 (1 #F), and MIC 000057 (1 #M); 2 #F, 4 #M, Brighton, NS, P.H.H. Gray, ex.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cosmopterigidae" genus="Limnaecia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Limnaecia phragmitella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="phragmitella">Limnaecia phragmitella</taxonomicName>
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and
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<taxonomicName genus="Dycimotomia" lsidName="Dycimotomia julianalis" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" rank="species" species="julianalis">Dycimotomia julianalis</taxonomicName>
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, on
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Typhaceae" genus="Typha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Typha" order="Poales" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Typha</taxonomicName>
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heads, two of those specimens with a third label with Specimen IDs: MIC 000055 and MIC 000056 (2 #M); 1 ♂, Leeds-Granville Co., forest, ix-x.2008, S. B. Peck. Specimen ID: CAM 0456.
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<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="9">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="10" pageId="8" pageNumber="9">
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This species looks similar to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="9" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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Muesebeck, 1921; and it will run to that species in the available keys (e.g.
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<bibRefCitation author="Muesebeck, CFW" journalOrPublisher="Proceedings of the United States National Museum" pageId="41" pageNumber="42" pagination="483 - 576" title="A revision of the North American species of ichneumon-flies belonging to the genus Apanteles." volume="58" year="1921">Muesebeck 1921</bibRefCitation>
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). It differs in the
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<pageBreakToken pageId="9" pageNumber="10" start="start">stigma</pageBreakToken>
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colour in the fore wing (pale with only brown borders in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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, completely brown in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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); the shape of vannal lobe in the hind wing (straight and with short setae medially in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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, concave and glabrous in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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), and the relative length of the metatibial spurs (about the same length in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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, the inner spur longer than the outer one in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="9" pageNumber="10" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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). The two species also have different geographic distribution, different host species, and differ in 14 base pairs within the barcoding region (more details below under the sections Molecular data, Distribution and biology and Comments).
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">Female</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="10">
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Antenna length 2.6 mm (2.1-2.5 mm), body length 3.7 mm (2.8-3.6 mm), forewing 3.5 mm (2.6-3.5 mm). Head with glossa bilobated and rather long. Face smooth, with very shallow punctures (separation between punctures larger than punctures diameter) and very sparse setae. Face width at antennal base/face width at clypeus edge: 1.1
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; intertentorial pit distance/face width at clypeus edge: 0.6
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; compound eye height/head height: 0.7
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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(0.6
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); head height/width: 0.9
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; face width at antennal base/head maximum width: 0.6
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; malar space/basal width of mandible 1.7
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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(1.3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–1.7×">-1.7x</normalizedToken>
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). Clypeus not much transverse, its width/height: 2.6
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. Length/width of flagellomeres: 1st (3.1
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), 2nd (3.1
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), 8th (2.3
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), 14th (1.3
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), 15th (1.0
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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). Length of flagellomere 2/flagellomere 14: 2.2
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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. Ocelo-ocular distance/posterior ocelli diameter: 2.3
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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(1.9
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–2.3×">-2.3x</normalizedToken>
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); distance betwen posterior ocelli/ocelli diameter: 2.7
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<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
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(2.1
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<normalizedToken originalValue="–2.7×">-2.7x</normalizedToken>
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).
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Mesosoma. Pronotum very smooth and polished, laterally with dorsal and ventral grooves thin but deep and well defined. Mesoscutum mostly smooth, with shallow punctures (distance between punctures about its diameter), punctures a little closer and deeper in the posterior margin. Mesoscutum 1.2
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(1.1
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) wider than long. Mesoscutum and scutellum covered by sparse, silvered-coloured pilosity. Scutellum almost smooth, with very sparse (distance between punctures twice its diameter) and shallow punctures concentrated mostly on the margins. Scutellum length/width at base 1.1
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. Scutellar suture thin and shallow, with 16 (15-17) costulae. Posterior band of scutellum polished. Scutellar lateral face with the polished area triangular and about 4/5 the face height. Mesopleuron smooth and glabrous on most of its surface, with sparse setae and punctures (distance between punctures twice or more its diameter) only on the anterior and dorsal margins. Thin and shallow sulcus, with a few costulae, separating meso and metapleura. Metapleuron mostly smooth and polished, with setae and sparse punctures only dorsally and posteriorly along margins; metapleuron with a thin, longitudinal sulcus running from lower margin through spiracle. Metapleural carina with short lamella. Propodeum mostly smooth, with sparsely punctures in the anterior half and a few transverse striae in the apical half; propodeal areola absent but there is a short, postero-median longitudinal band of rugosity (consisting of several very short carinae radiating from nucha).
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Metasoma. Mediotergite 1 arched and strongly narrowing toward apex, with a wide and deep basal depression; basal width/apical width 2.2
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; length/apical width 2.3 (2.0
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); mediotergite 1 mostly smooth, polished and glabrous, with a few setae and elongated, longitudinal punctures postero-laterally. Mediotergite 2 smooth and polished, transverse, and wider centrally; basal width/apical width 1.0
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(0.9
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);
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/apical width 0.5
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(0.3
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). Mediotergite 3 2.0
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) the length of mediotergite 2. Mediotergite 3 and following unsculptured, polished and uniformly covered by setae. Hypopygium striate, with acute tip protruding beyond apical tergites. Ovipositor sheaths fully setose, 1.9
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(1.8
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) as long as metatibia length.
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</paragraph>
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Legs. Metatibial inner spur about the same length of outer spur, and 0.4
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(0.4
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) the length of metatarsomere 1. Metafemur 2.8
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as long as wide.
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Wings. Forewing vein R1a 1.0
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as long as stigma length; length of R1a 5.0
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as long as the distance between its end and the end of 3RSb. Vein r 0.8
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the maximum width of stigma. Join of veins r and 2RS angulated and with a small know marking the angulation (sometimes only slightly angulated and then know very small to absent); vein 2M 0.6
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as long as vein (RS+M)b. Edge of vannal lobe of hindwing medially straight and with short setae that are slightly sparser than the rest of the lobe.
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Colour: Mostly black to dark brown, except for: maxillary and labial palps (light brown to brown), wing base (light brown), profemur and part of most of all tibia and tarsi (light brown to yellow), meso and metatibial spurs (light yellow to witish). Wings hyaline, with most of veins transparent, except for C+Sc+R, R1, and occasionally r and 2RS which can be partially pigmented; stigma hyaline except for brownish borders.</paragraph>
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<subSection pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="male">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Male</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Similar to females but slightly smaller in size and with longer antennal segments (especially the apical ones). The maxillary and labial palpi tend to be yellow, and the legs tend to be darker (mostly black with less yellow areas). The mediotergite 1 is fully smooth and polished, and narrows stronger toward apex (being thinner compared to that of females). The wing veins are paler, of milky coloration, including the stigma (which brown borders are very thin, almost disappearing in some specimens).</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="variation">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Variation.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">There is some variation in size among the different localities (it is shown in the description) and also the maxillary and labial palpi range from dark brown to yellow.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="molecular data">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Molecular data.</paragraph>
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Barcodesof 6 specimens of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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and 3 of the related species
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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were compared. Because all specimens but one were collected between 1951 and 1969 it was only possible to obtain mini-barcodes (144 bp). The only recent specimen (a paratype of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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, collected in 2008) rendered a full barcode (657 bp) which fully matched the other specimens with mini-barcodes. The molecular results confirmed that they are indeed different species, with at least 14 (9.7%) of base pairs divergence (Fig. 22). Interestingly, specimens of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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within the US (from CA, MO and TX) seem to comprise more than one species -but that is beyond the geographical scope of the present work, thus they will be dealt with in a different paper.
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<subSubSection pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="distribution and biology">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Distribution and biology.</paragraph>
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The species is widely distributed in Eastern Canada, where it has been recorded parasitizing
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cosmopterigidae" genus="Limnaecia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Limnaecia phragmitella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="phragmitella">Limnaecia phragmitella</taxonomicName>
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(
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<taxonomicName family="Gelechidae" lsidName="" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="family">Gelechidae</taxonomicName>
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) on
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<taxonomicName class="Liliopsida" family="Typhaceae" genus="Typha" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Typha" order="Poales" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Typha</taxonomicName>
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spp. heads (cattail grass). Some paratypes from Nova Scotia had written on their labels that the host could also be
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<taxonomicName genus="Dycimotomia" lsidName="Dycimotomia julianalis" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="species" species="julianalis">Dycimotomia julianalis</taxonomicName>
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(
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<taxonomicName family="Pyralidae" lsidName="" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="family">Pyralidae</taxonomicName>
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), also on cattail; however, this record needs to be confirmed. This is the first
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<taxonomicName lsidName="" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Microgastrinae">Microgastrinae</taxonomicName>
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(and
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<taxonomicName family="Braconidae" lsidName="" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" rank="family">Braconidae</taxonomicName>
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) species recorded as parasitoid of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Cosmopterigidae" genus="Limnaecia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Limnaecia phragmitella" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="phragmitella">Limnaecia phragmitella</taxonomicName>
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.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="12" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" type="comments">
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<paragraph pageId="10" pageNumber="11">Comments.</paragraph>
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<paragraph lastPageId="11" lastPageNumber="12" pageId="10" pageNumber="11">
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The specimens of
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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were identified by W. Mason as a different but related species to
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="11" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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. The latter species has been recorded from
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<pageBreakToken pageId="11" pageNumber="12" start="start">US</pageBreakToken>
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in the following ten states: CA, IA, ID, MI, MO, NE, NM, OR, SD, TX (
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<bibRefCitation author="Yu, D" journalOrPublisher="Taxapad, Vancouver, Canada" pageId="42" pageNumber="43" title="World Ichneumonoidea 2004. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution." year="2005">Yu et al. 2005</bibRefCitation>
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). The different host species (
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Gelechiidae" genus="Isophrictis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Isophrictis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Isophrictis</taxonomicName>
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sp. (
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||
<taxonomicName family="Gelechidae" lsidName="" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" rank="family">Gelechidae</taxonomicName>
|
||
) for
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles cockerelli" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cockerelli">Apanteles cockerelli</taxonomicName>
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), 14 (9.7 %) of base pairs divergence within the barcoding region, and slight but consistent morphological differences, provide sufficient evidence to consider
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||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Braconidae" genus="Apanteles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Apanteles masmithi" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="masmithi">Apanteles masmithi</taxonomicName>
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as a distinct species.
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||
</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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<subSubSection pageId="11" pageNumber="12" type="etymology">
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<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="12">Etymology.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="11" pageNumber="12">I dedicate this species, which DNA barcoding helped to recognize, to M. Alex Smith (University of Guelph) as an appreciation for the many parasitoid wasps he has helped to barcode, study and publish about; and also for sharing with me his superb knowledge on molecular approaches.</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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