Micro plitis sp. nr. sofron

Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Buffam, Joel, Beaudin, Melanie, Davis, Hannah, Ana Fernandez-Galliano,, Griffin, Emily, Lin, Shang-Yao, McAulay, Megan K., Richter, Robin, Rodriguez, Freddy & Varkonyi, Gergely, 2017, An annotated and illustrated checklist of Microgastrinae wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Greenland, ZooKeys 691, pp. 49-101 : 62-63

Micro plitis sp. nr. sofron Fig. 30

Distribution.

NEA. Probably a High Arctic endemic.

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.