Glyptapanteles harveyi 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 : 72-74

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles harveyi sp. nov. is in the G. albigena species group and can be separated all other members of the species group by having the pale spot on the gena barely visible, T2 dark and the propodeum with the median carina faintly indicated at anterior and posterior ends.

Etymology

Named for Dr Mark Harvey, who collected the type material and has generously run Malaise traps to collect microgastrine material, along with providing advice for many years on the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to EPF-J. We thank Mark for his dedication to robust taxonomic science and his support of early career researchers.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Western Australia, Gleneagle State Forest ; -32.2711, 116.163; 8–9 Oct. 2005; M.S. Harvey leg.; Malaise trap; Extraction119, BOLD: AUMIC021-18; WAM E109888 .

Paratype AUSTRALIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction413, BOLD: AUMIC246-18; WAM E109889 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena with a pale spot, but only weakly visible; 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 orange to light brown; mid femur orange to light brown; hind femur orange to light brown; fore tibia orange to light brown; mid tibia orange to light brown; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus dark reddish-brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark; T2 lateral area dark extending past indentation, but then pale; T3 mostly pale with darker patch in centre or uniformly brown; T4+ reddish-brown.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.5 mm; fore wing length 2.6 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.

HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 2.16–2.4; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.28–3.57; OOD/POD 1.86; IOD/POD 1.71–1.86.

MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with shallow punctures, space between punctures generally smaller than diameter of punctures; scutellar disk sculpturing with only very shallow punctures; seven pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina very faintly indicated in posterior half, anterior half with some punctures, postero-lateral corners smooth and shiny.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.63 mm; pterostigma width 0.26 mm; r 0.14 mm; 2RS 0.1 mm; 2m 0.11 mm; (RS+M)b 0.1 mm.

METASOMA. T1 wedge-shaped, narrowing posteriorly for entirety of length, lateral edges straight (but not parallel); T1 mostly smooth, some punctures in posterior half; T1 length 0.37 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.07 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth, some very shallow punctures in posterior half; T2 length 0.16 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.25 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles harveyi sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL3315 and is 5.33% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ACL9711; Glyptapanteles sp. from New Zealand).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 6.2% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC482-18; Glyptapanteles aspersus sp. nov.). The two specimens were sequenced for the wingless gene and share a unique barcode, which differs by a minimum of 3 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is currently known from Gleneagle State Forest near Perth, WA.

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. 6. A. Glyptapanteles mnesampela Austin, 2000, holotype, ♀ (ANIC 32-141445), T1 and T2 pale. B. G. eburneus Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (AM K.517935), T1 and T2 pale. C. G. rixi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (QM T250981), T2 pale, T1 darker than T2. D. G. mouldsi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀, (QM T250978), T1 dark, T2 pale. E. G. dowtoni Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (QM T250953), T1 dark, T2 pale. F. G. harveyi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (WAM E109889), T1 dark, T2 dark.

Fig. 7. A. Glyptapanteles harveyi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (WAM E109889), arrow indicating faint median carina at the posterior end of the propodeum. B. G. kittelae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (SAMA 32-46156), propodeum with median carina completely absent.

Fig. 38. Glyptapanteles harveyi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov. A–B, D. Holotype, ♀ (WAM E109888). C, E–G. Paratype, ♀ (WAM E109889). A. Lateral habitus. B. Fore wing. C. Dorsal mesosoma. D. Anterior head. E. Lateral head. F. Dorsal head. G. Dorsal metasoma.