Microplitis coactus (Lundbeck, 1896)

Hoecherl, Amelie, Shaw, Mark R., Boudreault, Caroline, Rabl, Dominik, Haszprunar, Gerhard, Raupach, Michael J., Schmidt, Stefan, Baranov, Viktor & Fernandez-Triana, Jose, 2024, Scratching the tip of the iceberg: integrative taxonomy reveals 30 new species records of Microgastrinae (Braconidae) parasitoid wasps for Germany, including new Holarctic distributions, ZooKeys 1188, pp. 305-386 : 305

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1188.112516

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Microplitis coactus (Lundbeck, 1896)
status

 

Microplitis coactus (Lundbeck, 1896) View in CoL

Material examined.

Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador: Saglek, Torngat Mountains NP, Base Camp south of park, 58.451, -62.798, 5 m, 01.viii.2014, leg. D. Whitaker, BIOUG18647-F03 GoogleMaps ; Nunavut: Ellesmere Island, Hazen Camp , 81.816667, -71.300000, [date unknown, leg. unknown], CNC497575 GoogleMaps ; Germany: Bavaria: Atzmannsberg, Hessenreuther and Atzmannsberger Forst , 49.825, 11.963, 550 m, Malaise trap, 11.vii.2019, leg. J. Müller, ZSM-HYM-42384-B08; St. Oswald , National Park Bayerischer Wald, 48.9509, 13.422, 842 m, Malaise trap, 20.vi.2012, leg. G. Sellmayer, BIOUG05949-B01 GoogleMaps .

Geographical distribution.

NEA, PAL.

NEA- Canada (NL*, NU), Greenland; PAL- Germany*, Iceland.

Molecular data.

BIN: BOLD:ACA4555.

Host information.

Host of type unknown; also Noctuidae .

Notes.

German specimens were identified by comparison with many specimens at the CNC (see Figs 38 View Figure 38 , 39 View Figure 39 ) and by checking the keys and information in Papp (1984b) and van Achterberg (2006) and the original description ( Lundbeck 1896). The associated host information is taken from the original description of the species ( Lundbeck 1896, 244) which stated that (loose translation from Danish follows): "there were nine specimens from earlier dates without a specific locality, all females; according to the inscription, they hatched from a Noctua species [this would refer just to a noctuid = Noctuidae at that time]. [...] The wasp cocoons seem to form a hollow ball and were found under rocks in several places in both northern and southern Greenland". This is the first record of the species outside the Nearctic and Iceland. The sequences from Germany match well (0.31% p-distance) with the sequences from Greenland available in BOLD, and the corresponding BIN is fairly cohesive (average of 0.58% of bp difference within BIN and 0.96% max. p-distance within the BIN) and comparatively very well differentiated from any other BIN currently in BOLD (nearest BIN is at 3.57% p-distance), therefore confirming also from a molecular perspective the presence of this species in Europe. This species is illustrated in Figs 38 View Figure 38 , 39 View Figure 39 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Microplitis