Apanteles kubensis Abdinbekova, 1969

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

Apanteles kubensis Abdinbekova, 1969

Material examined.

Germany: Baden-Württemberg: Malsch, Hansjakobstr. 7, Urban Garden, 48.884, 8.32, 120 m, Malaise trap, 16.viii.2020, leg. D. Doczkal, ZSM-HYM-33153-F03; Bavaria: Fabrikschleichach , close to Weilersbachtal , 49.917, 10.525, 408 m, Malaise trap, 12.vii.2019, leg. J. Müller, ZSM-HYM-42376-G08 ; Korea: Daejon-si, Wadong ; Chungnam, 36.4006, 127.444, 6.x.2006, leg. P. Tripotin, CNCH2502; CNCH2522; CNCH2526 ; Ukraine: [translated and transcribed from Russian] Crimea, Angarskiy pass, forest, glades, 11.vii.1979, leg. A. Kotenko, CNCHYM 00136 .

Geographical distribution.

PAL.

PAL- Azerbaijan, Germany*, Hungary, Iran, Korea, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia (NC, S), Turkey, Ukraine*.

Molecular data.

BIN: BOLD:AAH1340.

Host information.

Host of type unknown ( Abdinbekova 1969); also Tortricidae : Adoxophyes orana (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1834).

Notes.

The German specimens were compared with a specimen from Ukraine (CNCHYM 00136=CNC280641) which had been identified by Kotenko in 1981 and donated to the CNC. We also checked the information in Tobias (1986) (the key to " Apanteles " sensu lato species in Tobias (1986) was written in collaboration with Kotenko) and also the key in Papp (1980). Additionally, we studied CNC specimens from South Korea (CNCH2502, CNCH2522, CNCH2526) with DNA barcodes that match the sequences from German specimens and the Ukrainian specimen sent to the CNC by Kotenko. The species was recorded from Korea by Ku et al. (2001), and one of the coauthors of that paper, the Braconidae expert Sergey Belokobylskij, works in the institution storing the type of A. kubensis . In BOLD there is also an additional specimen from the Primorskiy Kray, Russia (BIOUG27804-B05) that perfectly matches the German, Korean, and Ukrainian sequences; it most likely represents an additional record of the species for the Russian Far East, but we do not report it here because we could not examine the specimen. The only host reported for A. kubensis in the literature ( Ku et al. 2001) is from Korea. The distribution in Iran was reported by Samin et al. (2020). This species is illustrated in Figs 3 , 4 .

Figures

Figure 3. Apanteles kubensis Abdinbekova, 1969, female (ZSM-HYM- 42376 - G 08) A lateral view B head frontal view C mesosoma D metasoma E wing. Length of the specimen: 3 mm.

Figure 4. Apanteles kubensis Abdinbekova, 1969, female (CNCHYM 00136) A lateral view B head frontal view C hypopygium lateral view D mesosoma E metasoma F wing.