Glyptapanteles kurandaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin, 2022

Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., McCLELLAND, Alana R., Bird, Andrew J., Giannotta, Madalene M., Bradford, Tessa M. & Austin, Andrew D., 2022, Systematic revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) for Australia results in a ten-fold increase in species, European Journal of Taxonomy 792 (1), pp. 1-116 : 79-82

Glyptapanteles kurandaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov.

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles kurandaensis sp. nov. can be separated from the other species of Glyptapanteles described from Australia by having the gena without a pale spot, T1 and T2 dark, anteromesoscutum punctures not extremely sparse and deep (i.e., not as in the G. niveus species group), no orange markings on the postero-lateral anteromesoscutum, propodeum without strong rugose sculpturing (sometimes with shallow sculpturing in centre, but never over most of propodeum), hind femur solidly dark in colouration, ventral side of antennal scape (at least in distal half) the same colour or darker than the flagellomeres, and fore wing veins r and 2SR narrow and smoothly joined, both significantly longer than vein 2m (compared to the sharply angled, thicker and shorter r and 2SR veins more typical of this genus in Australia).

Etymology

Named for the collection locality, Kuranda, a small town near Cairns in northern QLD.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Queensland, Kuranda ; -16.8135; 145.6430586; 317 m a.s.l.; 12 Feb.–6 Apr. 2020; M.S. Moulds leg.; Malaise Trap EFJ2020MT36; Extraction1568, BOLD: AUGLY110-21; QM T250958 .

Paratypes AUSTRALIA – Queensland • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype: Extraction1520, BOLD: AUGLY092-21; QM T250959 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1542, BOLD: AUGLY098-21; QM T250960 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1543, BOLD: AUGLY099-21; QM T250961 • 1 ♀ (ethanol); same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1546, BOLD: AUGLY101-21; QM T250962 • 1 ♀ (ethanol); same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1551, BOLD: AUGLY103-21; QM T250963 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1554, BOLD: AUGLY104-21; QM T250964 • 1 ♀ (ethanol); same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1565, BOLD: AUGLY109-21; QM T250965 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1569, BOLD: AUGLY111-21; QM T250966 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1570, BOLD: AUGLY112-21; QM T250967 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1508, BOLD: AUGLY129-21; QM T250968 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction296, BOLD: AUMIC161-18; QM T250969 • 1 ♀ (ethanol); same collection data as for holotype; 10 Feb.–15 Mar. 2017; Extraction500, BOLD: AUMIC306-18; QM T250970 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; 16 Mar.–12 Apr. 2017; Extraction551, BOLD: AUMIC342-18; QM T250971 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum mostly dark or reddish-brown; scape colour in ventral half the same colour or darker than flagellomeres; flagellomeres darkening distally; tegula dark; wing veins uniformly black or brown, or with small lighter area proximally; anteromesoscutum all dark; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa dark; mid coxa dark; hind coxa dark; fore femur pale yellow; mid femur pale yellow; hind femur dark reddish-brown or dark; fore tibia pale yellow; mid tibia pale yellow; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus light brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark or dark reddish-brown; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler, or dark extends past indentation, but then pale; T3 dark, mostly dark with paler lateral areas or uniformly brown; T4+ dark or reddish-brown.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 1.8 mm; fore wing length 1.9 mm; antennal length slightly shorter than body length.

HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.80–2.25; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 2.42– 3.80; OOD/POD 1.86–2.33; IOD/POD 1.29–2.00.

MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with shallow punctures, space between punctures generally smaller than diameter of punctures, slightly denser and deeper punctures anteriorly, smoother in posterior centre; scutellar disk sculpturing with only very shallow punctures; 7–9 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent, some indistinct sculpturing in posterior centre, or in centre along length of propodeum, or median carina faintly indicated for all of length by indistinct sculpturing.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.48 mm; pterostigma width 0.15 mm; r 0.17 mm; 2RS 0.12 mm; 2m 0.09 mm; (RS+M)b 0.1 mm.

METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior ¾ of length, then narrowing posteriorly, or lateral edges parallel for entirety of length, posterior corners sometimes rounded at boundary with T2; T1 mostly smooth, some punctures in posterior half or mostly smooth, some shallow rugose sculpturing in posterior half; T1 length 0.29 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.14 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight, with curved lateral and anterior edges, becoming arch- or semicircle-shaped or almost square, lateral edges almost parallel, only broadening posteriorly very slightly; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.13 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.24 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles kurandaensis sp. nov. constitutes BIN BOLD:ADL2798 and is 2.4% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:AAH1268, Glyptapanteles creatonoti (Viereck, 1912)) . We have examined the images of G. creatonoti in Gupta et al. (2016) and are confident that G. kurandaensis sp. nov. is a different species, most easily separated by the following morphological characteristics: G. kurandaensis sp. nov. has the hind coxa dark ( G. creatonoti hind coxa pale; “stamineous” in original description); G. kurandaensis sp. nov. has the propodeum much smoother than that of G. creatonoti and G. kurandaensis sp. nov. has T1 completely black, whilst G. creatonoti has the anterior area of T1 pale (“stamineous” in original description, appearing pale orange in images of Gupta et al. (2016)).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 7.7% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC291-18; Glyptapanteles austini sp. nov.). The type specimen was sequenced for the wingless gene, which differs by a minimum of 14 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is currently known from one collection site; Kuranda in north-eastern QLD.

Figures

Fig. 12.A. Glyptapanteles bradfordaeFagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (QM T250944), anteromesoscutum with very sparse deep punctures and slight orange markings. B. G. cooperi Fagan- Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (QM T250947), anteromesoscutum with very sparse deep punctures and no orange markings. C. G. baylessi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (AM K.517936), anteromesoscutum with dense punctures, strong orange markings on the postero-lateral corners. D. G. kurandaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (QM T250971), with dense shallow punctures, but no strong orange markings on the anteromesoscutum.

Fig. 14. A. Glyptapanteles kurandaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (QM T250969), fore wing, arrow indicating vein r. B. G. kingae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype (SAMA 32-46154), arrow indicating vein r.

Fig. 41. Glyptapanteles kurandaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratypes, ♀. A–B, D–E. (QM T250969). C, F–G. QM T250971. A. Lateral habitus. B. Fore wing. C. Dorsal mesosoma. D. Anterior head. E. Lateral head. F. Dorsal metasoma. G. Lateral metasoma.