Glyptapanteles andamookaensis 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 : 23-25

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles andamookaensis sp. nov. is in the G. albigena species group and can be separated from the other members of the species group by the pale spot on the gena being small but clearly visible, T2 dark, propodeum with the median carina completely absent and hind femur mostly dark (sometimes with a lighter area anteriorly).

Etymology

Glyptapanteles andamookaensis sp. nov. is named after the collection locality.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; South Australia, Andamooka Station; -30.8198802, 137.1783585 to -30.6998403, 137.1574435; 31 Aug. 2016; R. Leijs leg.; Vehicle net, Bush Blitz Lake Torrens; Extraction260, BOLD: AUMIC130-18; SAMA 32-035451 .

Paratype AUSTRALIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction565, BOLD: AUMIC357-18; SAMA 32-035452 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena with a pale spot; labrum reddish-brown; scape colour in ventral half the same colour or darker than flagellomeres; flagellomeres all black/dark brown; tegula pale; 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; fore tibia orange to light brown; mid tibia orange to light brown; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus light brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark, dark area extending past indentation to non-sclerotised area, but T2 lateral area then pale; T3 dark; T4+ dark.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.7 mm; fore wing length 2.7 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.

HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 2.00; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.57; OOD/ POD 1.25–1.38; IOD/POD 1.88.

MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with only very shallow punctures, reasonably smooth; scutellar disk sculpturing with only very shallow punctures, smooth and shiny; 10–11 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent, only very shallow punctures associated with setae.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.71 mm; pterostigma width 0.29 mm; r 0.18 mm; 2RS 0.15 mm; 2m 0.11 mm; (RS+M)b 0.13 mm.

METASOMA. T1 wedge-shaped, narrowing posteriorly for entirety of length, lateral edges straight (but not parallel); T1 smooth and shiny; T1 length 0.41 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.08 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.17 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.28 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles andamookaensis sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL4705 and is 6.41% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADL3094; Glyptapanteles aspersus sp. nov.).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 6.5% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC374-18; Glyptapanteles aspersus sp. nov.). The two available specimens, both sequenced for the wingless gene, share a unique barcode, that differs by a minimum of 1 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is known only from Andamooka Station in the central arid region of SA.

Figures

Fig. 8. A. Glyptapanteles andamookaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (SAMA 32-035451), hind femur mostly dark. B. G. kittelae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (SAMA 32-46156), hind femur mostly light brown.

Fig. 18. Glyptapanteles andamookaensis Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov. A–C, F–G. Holotype, ♀ (SAMA 32-035451). D–E. Paratype, ♀ (SAMA 32-035452). A. Fore wing. B. Dorsal metasoma. C. Dorsal mesosoma. D. Lateral habitus. E. Dorsal head. F. Anterior head. G. Lateral head.