Glyptapanteles foraminous 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 : 64-66

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles foraminous sp. nov. is in the G. eburneus species group and can be separated from G. eburneus sp. nov. by having T2 dark; G. eburneus sp. nov. has T2 pale. Additionally, the wingless sequences of the two holotype specimens are distinct and differ by 5 bp.

Etymology

The species epithet ‘ foraminous ’ is a Latin adjective meaning ‘full of holes’ and refers to the highly sculptured mesosoma with dense indentations.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Queensland, Cainbable Quarry , “OF”; -28.145, 153.113; 3–19 Feb. 2009; F. Turco leg.; Extraction182, BOLD: AUMIC069-18; QM T208408 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum pale; scape colour in ventral half uniformly paler than flagellomeres; flagellomeres uniformly reddish-brown; tegula pale; wing veins uniformly black or brown, or with small lighter area proximally; anteromesoscutum dark with very slight orange patches on posterolateral corners; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa white; mid coxa white; hind coxa pale yellow; mid femur pale yellow; hind femur pale yellow; mid tibia pale yellow; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus light brown; T1 pale; T2 sclerotised area dark; T2 lateral area much paler; T3 mostly dark with paler lateral areas; T4+ reddish-brown.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.0 mm; fore wing length 2.0 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.

HEAD. Face densely sculptured, punctate reticulate; antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 2.71; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.57; OOD/POD 1.75; IOD/POD 1.88.

MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with deep punctures, space between punctures a mixture of smaller than diameter of punctures and of similar size; scutellar disk sculpturing with deep irregularly spaced punctures; 10 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina present and complete, rest of propodeum mostly smooth.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.62 mm; pterostigma width 0.21 mm; r 0.22 mm; 2RS 0.19 mm; 2m 0.09 mm; (RS+M)b 0.11 mm.

METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior ½ to ⅔ of length, then narrowing posteriorly; T1 mostly smooth, some punctures in posterior half; T1 length 0.5 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.1 mm; T2 with curved lateral and anterior edges, becoming arch- or semicircle-shaped; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.14 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.33 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles foraminous sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL3303 and is 2.32% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADZ3782, a BIN that has not been released publicly).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 2.3% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC274-18; Glyptapanteles eburneus sp. nov.). The type specimen was able to be sequenced for the wingless gene, which differs by a minimum of 5 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is currently only represented by a single specimen from Cainbable Quarry in southern QLD.

Figures

Fig. 35. Glyptapanteles foraminous Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (QM T208408). A. Lateral mesosoma. B. Lateral habitus. C. Dorsal mesosoma. D. Dorsal metasoma. E. Lateral head. F. Anterior head. G. Dorsal head. H. Fore wing.