Glyptapanteles sanniopolus 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 : 103-106

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles sanniopolus sp. nov. is in the G. albigena species group and can be separated from most other members of the species group by having the gena with a large pale spot ( Fig. 51G ) rather than small (e.g., Fig. 40A ) and from G. albigena sp. nov. by having the gena spot covering less than a third of the gena height and more rounded at the dorsal edge.

Etymology

The species epithet ‘ sanniopolus ’ is a combination of the Latin words ‘sannio’ (‛one who makes faces’) and ‛polus’ (‛pole of the earth’) and refers to the pale spot on the gena characteristic of this species and of the broader G. albigena species group. It is a noun in apposition.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; New South Wales, Monga National Park near Penance Grove Walk; -35.597372, 149.912126; 9 Nov. 2019 – 16 Jan. 2020; K.M. Bayless and J.G. Lumbers leg.; Malaise trap over stream, trap destroyed by bushfire 30 Dec. 2019, partially dried out; Extraction1666, BOLD: AUGLY127-21; ANIC 32 130370 .

Paratypes AUSTRALIA – New South Wales • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; Extraction1638, BOLD: AUGLY121-21; ANIC 32 130371 . – Tasmania • 1 ♂; Hobart, Kingston Beach ; -42.986, 147.317; 14– 18 Sep. 2010; B. Ward leg.; BIOUG00996-D09, BOLD: HYAT425-11; ANIC 32 130372 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena with a pale spot; labrum pale; 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 or dark with very slight orange patches on posterolateral corners; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa pale yellow; mid coxa pale yellow; hind coxa dark; fore femur pale yellow; mid femur pale yellow; hind femur pale yellow; fore tibia pale yellow or light brown; mid tibia light brown; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus light brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark or dark reddish-brown; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler, or dark extends past indentation, but then pale; T3 dark or uniformly brown; T4+ dark or reddish-brown.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.4 mm; fore wing length 2.6 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.

HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 2.6; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 4.33; OOD/ POD 1.86; IOD/POD 1.43.

MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with shallow to deep punctures, space between punctures a mixture of smaller than diameter of punctures and of similar size. Often smoother in posterior centre; scutellar disk sculpturing with only very shallow punctures, smooth and shiny; nine pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina present and complete, rest of propodeum strongly rugose.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.6 mm; pterostigma width 0.23 mm; r 0.16 mm; 2RS 0.15 mm; 2m 0.13 mm; (RS+M)b 0.1 mm.

METASOMA. T1 wedge-shaped, narrowing posteriorly for entirety of length, lateral edges straight (but not parallel); T1 smooth and shiny, some shallow scattered punctures on lateral edges and posterior half or smooth in anterior half, indistinct sculpturing in posterior half; T1 length 0.62 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.1 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 with some shallow indistinct sculpturing or smooth and shiny, some shallow punctures along posterior edge; T2 length 0.16 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.27 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

As female, 7–9 pits in scutellar sulcus.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles sanniopolus sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ABA6208 and is 5.48% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADL3908; Glyptapanteles albigena sp. nov.).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 5.6% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC394-18; Glyptapanteles albigena sp. nov.). The two specimens able to be sequenced for the wingless gene share a unique barcode, which differs by a minimum of 3 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is known from southern NSW and TAS.

Figures

Fig. 5. A. Glyptapanteles albigena Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (ANIC 32 130334), arrow indicating a large pale gena spot. B. G. sanniopolus Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (ANIC 32 130370), arrow indicating a large pale gena spot. C. G. kittelae Fagan- Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (SAMA 32-46156) arrow indicating small (clearly visible) pale gena spot. D. G. harveyi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (WAM E109889), arrow indicating small (faint, barely visible) pale gena spot. E. G. baylessi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov. paratype, ♀ (AM K.517936), gena without a pale spot.

Fig. 51. Glyptapanteles sanniopolus Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (ANIC 32 130370). A. Fore wing. B. Dorsal mesosoma. C. Lateral mesosoma. D. Dorsal metasoma. E. Anterior head. F. Lateral metasoma. G. Lateral head. H. Dorsal head.

Fig. 40. Glyptapanteles kittelae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (SAMA 32- 46156). A. Lateral habitus. B. Fore wing. C. Dorsal metasoma. D. Lateral metasoma. E. Dorsal mesosoma. F. Lateral mesosoma. G. Anterior head. H. Dorsal head.