Dolichogenidea coleophorae (Wilkinson, 1938)

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

Dolichogenidea coleophorae (Wilkinson, 1938)

Material examined.

Canada: Newfoundland and Labrador: 2 miles west of Gambo, 48.789478, -54.261043, 19.vi.1975, leg. A. G. Raske, J. D. Rowe, ex. Coleophora serratella , CNCHYM 01020; Gambo , 48.786481, -54.215467, 27.vii.1985, CNCHYM 01019 ; Germany: Baden-Württemberg: Malsch, Luderbusch, 48.912, 8.332, 112 m, Malaise trap, 24.v.2020, leg. D. Doczkal, K. Grabow, ZSM-HYM-42386-G05; Bavaria: Forchheim , Untere Mark bei Willersdorf , 49.739, 10.969, 261 m, Malaise trap, 12.vii.2019, leg. J. Müller, ZSM-HYM-42377-D11; [exact location unknown], 13.viii.1975, CNCHYM 01021 ; Switzerland: Aigle , 46.319083, 6.970444, 9.viii.1973, CNCHYM 01024 ; United Kingdom: England : [exact location unknown], 15.iii.1938, ex. Coleophora serratella , CNCHYM 01023 .

Geographical distribution.

NEA, PAL.

NEA: Canada (NL); PAL: Azerbaijan, Finland, Germany*, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (KHA, VOR, YAR), Slovakia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan.

Molecular data.

BOLD:AEO8197.

Host information.

Coleophoridae : type reared from Coleophora serratella (Linnaeus, 1761); also possibly Coleophora? ibipennella Zeller, 1849; Coleophora? lusciniaepennella (Treitschke, 1833); Coleophora? obducta (Meyrick, 1931); Coleophora? tadzhikiella Danilevsky, 1955.

Notes.

Several Canadian (CNCHYM 01019, CNCHYM 01020) and European specimens at the CNC (CNCHYM 01021 from Germany, CNCHYM 01023 from United Kingdom, CNCHYM 01024 from Switzerland) were reared from the host of the type or the synonym Coleophora fuscedinella Zeller, 1849 and identified as D. coleophorae . We compared our material collected in Germany with those reared specimens collected in Canada and Europe as well as the original description and the works of Nixon (1976), Papp (1981a) and Tobias (1986). Our freshly collected material from Germany morphologically matches the reared specimens as well as the literature. All specimens we examined are associated with sequences, except for CNCHYM 01023 which was collected in 1938. The barcode sequences of the reared specimens are short (107 bp) and all of these specimens were collected between 1973 and 1985. They do not 100% match our sequences (3 bp difference). However, since the COI sequences of the historical material are very short, the species occurs in several neighbouring countries of Germany, the host is widely distributed in Europe and occurs in Germany, and our specimens match the morphological concept of the species, we conclude that our specimens fit our current concept of this species despite the currently somewhat conflicting DNA barcodes. In the historical literature there are other host records from several additional species of Coleophora , which may be correct but are here cited as questionable. Other literature host records from different Lepidoptera families are much less probable and we do not consider them here. This species is illustrated in Fig. 23 .

Figures

Figure 23. Dolichogenidea coleophorae (Wilkinson, 1938), female (ZSM-HYM- 42377 - D 11) A lateral and B dorsal views. Length of the specimen: 2.25 mm.