Notogaster macdonaldae Fernandez-Triana & Ward, 2020

Fernández-Triana, Jose L. & Ward, Darren F., 2020, Notogaster, a new genus of Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from New Zealand, Zootaxa 4801 (2), pp. 251-279 : 265

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4801.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AB3EF130-AF40-4A49-9C85-7DE3ABC398ED

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5587184

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B31287AD-1452-4126-2C9B-FF5EE6791833

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scientific name

Notogaster macdonaldae Fernandez-Triana & Ward
status

sp. nov.

Notogaster macdonaldae Fernandez-Triana & Ward , sp. nov.

( Figs 14 View FIGURE 14 A–G)

Holotype. Female ( NZAC), NEW ZEALAND, CL, 19km East of Tapu, -36.9565 175.71396, 31/i/1981, JS Noyes. Voucher code: NZAC04044109 About NZAC . GoogleMaps

Paratypes. 3 Females, 3 Males ( CNC, NZAC) . 1 Female, AK, Birkenhead , Oct 1980, JF Longworth, Malaise trap, Second growth bush, NZAC04198809 About NZAC ; 1 Female, BP, Papatea , 24/9/1992 – 19/10/1992, JS Dugdale, Malaise trap, NZAC04049150 About NZAC ; 1 Female, TK, below Mt Messenger , 15/12/1983, L Masner, Sweeping, WAM 0545 About WAM ; 3 Males, TK, below Mt Messenger , 15/12/1983, L Masner, Sweeping, WAM 0391 About WAM , WAM 0393 About WAM , WAM 0392 About WAM .

Diagnostic description. Mesosoma mostly to extensively light (orange, yellow or light yellow-brown); metasoma dorsally mostly dark but with T 3 yellow, or mostly light (orange, yellow or light yellow-brown); gena without pale spot; tegula pale; first two pairs of legs entirely pale (yellow, orange or light yellow-brown), rarely with coxae darker; metacoxa pale; metafemur mostly pale (yellow, orange or light yellow-brown); metatibia mostly yellow; T 2 mostly sculptured. See Table 1 View TABLE 1 for additional morphological measurements. Notogaster macdonaldae is morphologically similar to N. charlesi but it is slightly darker, and it does not have a pale spot on the gena ( Figs 14B, 14E View FIGURE 14 ).

Molecular data. There are no DNA barcode sequences in BOLD for this species.

Distribution. AK, BP, CL, TK ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1−9 ).

Etymology. Named after Frances MacDonald for her contribution to entomology in New Zealand.

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

CNC

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Braconidae

Genus

Notogaster

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