Glyptapanteles cooperi 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 : 44-46

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles cooperi sp. nov. is in the G. niveus species group and can be separated from G. bradfordae sp. nov. by the hind coxa of G. cooperi sp. nov. only being sparsely punctured, particularly on the dorsal area and from G. niveus sp. nov. by the labrum being pale in colour (labrum dark in G. niveus sp. nov.).

Etymology

Named for Professor Steven Cooper, who has provided extensive mentoring to EPF-J during her PhD.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Queensland, Kuranda ; -16.8154, 145.643; 317 m a.s.l.; 16 Mar.–12 Apr. 2017; M.S. Moulds leg.; Malaise Trap; Extraction548, BOLD: AUMIC340-18; QM T250947 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum pale; scape colour in ventral half paler than flagellomeres at proximal end; flagellomeres all black/dark brown; tegula dark; wing veins uniformly black or brown, or with small lighter area proximally; anteromesoscutum dark with very slight orange patches on posterolateral corners; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa white; mid coxa white; hind coxa dark; hind femur orange to light brown; hind tibia light brown; hind basitarsus light brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler; T3 mostly dark with paler lateral areas; T4+ dark.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.3 mm; fore wing length 2.2 mm.

HEAD. Face densely sculptured, punctate reticulate; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.63; OOD/ POD 1.50; IOD/POD 1.50.

MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum with very sparse, deep punctures; scutellar disk smooth in centre, some deep punctures on lateral edges; six pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina present and complete, rest of propodeum strongly rugose.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.58 mm; pterostigma width 0.17 mm; r 0.15 mm; 2RS 0.1 mm; 2m 0.11 mm; (RS+M)b 0.08 mm.

METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior 1/4 of length, then gently narrowing posteriorly, lateral edges often with slight curve; T1 smooth in anterior half, punctate reticulate in posterior half; T1 length 0.5 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.21 mm; T2 width greater than length, rectangular with rounded anterior corners; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.15 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.36 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles cooperi sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL4822 and is 6.98% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADG5990, an undescribed lineage from Australia, with two specimens).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 6.8% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (GMQQW352-18; an undescribed lineage, with two specimens). The type specimen was able to be sequenced for the wingless gene, which differs by a minimum of 4 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is currently only represented by a single specimen from Kuranda, northern 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. 26. Glyptapanteles cooperi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (QM T250947). A. Lateral body. B. Fore wing. C. Dorsal head. D. Dorsal propodeum and metasoma. E. Lateral head. F. Anterior head. G. Dorsal mesosoma. H. Dorsal metasoma.