Microgaster procera Ruthe, 1860

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

Microgaster procera Ruthe, 1860

Material examined.

Canada: Prince Edward Island: Near Georgetown; Georgetown , 46.417, -62.667, 8 m, 31.vii.2005, leg. M. Sharkey, WMIC 0244; WMIC 0245 ; Germany: Bavaria: Berchtesgaden National Park, Königssee, Rinnkendlsteig , 47.553, 12.964, 775 m, Malaise trap, 30.vii.2017, leg. D. Doczkal, J. Voith, ZSM-HYM-33160-F06; Berchtesgaden National Park , Wald west of St. Bartholomae , 47.547, 12.965, 620 m, Malaise trap, 28.vi.2017, leg. D. Doczkal, J. Voith, ZSM-HYM-33156-E05; ZSM-HYM-33156-E06; ZSM-HYM-33156-E07; Schmelzenholzham, Waldrand, 48.488, 13.124, 468 m, Malaise trap, 12.vii.2019, leg. J. Müller, ZSM-HYM-42325-B01; Siegenburg, Bombodrom, 48.755, 11.791, 411 m, Malaise trap, 13.vii.2017, leg. D. Doczkal, J. Voith, ZSM-HYM-42324-D03 .

Geographical distribution.

NEA, PAL.

NEA*- Canada* (PE); PAL- Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia (SPE), Spain, Ukraine.

Molecular data.

BIN: BOLD:AAA9548.

Host information.

Host of type unknown. Shaw (2012a) gives tentative hosts of some British specimens (see below).

Notes.

This is not a new record for Germany, but morphological examination of German material and assignment of the species name to a barcoding cluster allow us to record the species in the Nearctic for the first time. The Canadian specimens were compared to the European material and all sequences in this barcoding cluster have a maximum pairwise-distance of just 0.15%. The host information for this species must be considered as mostly unreliable; based on a recent discussion ( Shaw 2012a: 194) it seems as though the crambid Anania hortulata could be the most trustable record, but even that needs verification. This species is illustrated in Figs 50 , 51 .

Figures

Figure 50. Microgaster procera Ruthe, 1860, female (WMIC 0245) A lateral view B dorsal view C lateroventral view. Length of the specimen: 4.15 mm.

Figure 51. Microgaster procera Ruthe, 1860, female (ZSM-HYM- 33160 - F 06) A lateral and B dorsal views. Length of the specimen: 5.25 mm.