Protapanteles endemus (Nixon, 1965)

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

Protapanteles endemus (Nixon, 1965)

Material examined.

France: Jura, Ounans , ex. Thyatira batis , 25.vii.2013, leg. M. R. Shaw, MRS_JFT0355 ; Germany: Baden-Württemberg: Malsch, Hansjakobstr. 7, Urban Garden, 48.884, 8.32, 120 m, Malaise trap, 30.viii.2020, leg. D. Doczkal, ZSM-HYM-33153-G08; Malsch , Luderbusch , 48.913, 8.332, 117 m, Malaise trap, 19.vii.2020, leg. D. Doczkal, K. Grabow, ZSM-HYM-42388-D09 ; Poland: Biebrza National Park , cocoons on Ribes nigrum with Abraxas grossulariata , leg. M. R. Shaw, MRS_JFT0444 .

Geographical distribution.

PAL.

PAL: France, Germany*, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Poland*, Russia (ZAB, SPE), Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Molecular data.

BIN: BOLD:AEI1558.

Host information.

Geometridae : Type reared from Abraxas grossulariata (Linnaeus, 1758); also Drepanidae *: Thyatira batis * (Linnaeus, 1758).

Notes.

The German specimens were identified based on information from the original description ( Nixon 1965) as well as subsequent papers ( Nixon 1976; Papp 1984a). Our German sequences 99.7-100% match two identical sequences of specimens with some host relations: one was collected as a cocoon from Ribes sp. with Abraxas grossulariata (MRS_JFT0444), the Geometrid species the holotype was reared from ( Nixon 1965). Another specimen was reared from Thyatira batis (MRS_JFT0355), a rather novel host and member of Drepanidae . We propose here that an additional host record from the literature is excluded: Tobias (1971: 246) had recorded Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758) Noctuidae as a host of Protapanteles endemus in the St. Petersburg (as Leningrad) region; however, a subsequent paper from the same author ( Tobias 1986: 661) ignored that host record and even the record of the wasp species from that region (it only recorded P. endemus from a much more southern region of the former Soviet Union, now Ukraine). It is likely that either the wasp, the host or both were misidentified in the 1971 paper and therefore this record must be removed (unless additional data in the future confirms that association). This species is illustrated in Fig. 43 .

Figures

Figure 43. Protapanteles endemus (Nixon, 1965), female (ZSM-HYM- 33153 - G 08) A lateral view B mesosoma, T 1, and T 2 C dorsal view. Length of the specimen: 2.5 mm.