Apanteles ippeus Nixon, 1965

Fig. 5 A (distribution), Fig. 42 (examined material), Fig. 43 B (holotype)

Holotype information.

♀; Australia, Canberra, “ bred from Plutella maculipennis, (F. Wilson) ” (NHM). Images of the type examined.

Examined material.

64 ♀, 13 ♂, 2?; from ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, and WA; see Suppl. material 3 for full collection details.

Diagnosis.

Apanteles ippeus can be separated from the other species of Apanteles in Australia that have a dark metacoxa and metafemur, the pterostigma without a pale centre, the ovipositor sheaths> 0.6 × metatibia length and the antenna of similar length to the body length by T 1 having very straight parallel sides, the pterostigma with large conspicuous pale spot and propodeal areola narrower than most species (i. e., as in Fig. 42 B).

Notes.

The specimens collected in this study were initially identified through a DNA barcode match to a specimen collected and sequenced as part of an investigation into predators and parasitoids in brassica crops in southern Australia (Juen et al. 2012). Morphology aligned with that of the holotype of A. ippeus, reared from Plutella xylostella, a known pest of brassica in Australia, and we therefore consider this a reasonably reliable identification.