Teresirogas williamsi Quicke

Quicke, Donald L. J., Shaw, Mark R., Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Bland, Keith P., Butcher, Buntika A., Lyszkowski, Richard & Zhang, Y. Miles, 2014, A new Australian genus and five new species of Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), one reared as a gregarious endoparasitoid of an unidentified limacodid (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 3881 (3), pp. 237-257 : 250

Teresirogas williamsi Quicke & van Achterberg sp. nov.

( Figs 11–12 )

Holotype 1♀, “Solar Village, Humpty Doo, 12.35S 131.07E, N.T., 9 April 1991, M.S. Upton” ( ANIC).

Paratype: 1♀, “Near airport, Iron Range, Qld, 20 Dec. 1971, MV light, D.K. McAlpine, G.A. Holloway, D.P. Sand” (AMS).

Female. Body length 7.4 mm, fore wing length 6.0 mm.

Antenna with 51 flagellomeres. Claws with large black pointed lobes ( Fig. 11 B).

Coloration similar to pale T. billbrysoni except pterostigma largely yellow ( Fig. 12 A) and brownish yellow hind basitarsus.

Etymology. Named after the Australian painter Fred Williams (1927–1982), well known for his evocative paintings of the Australian landscape.

Figures

FIGURE 11. Teresirogas williamsi gen. et. sp. nov. A, habitus; B, hind leg; C, head, front view; D, head, lateral view; E, head, dorsal view.

FIGURE 12. Teresirogas williamsi gen. et. sp. nov. A, fore wing; B, posterior of mesosoma and anterior of metasoma, dorsal view; C, metasomal tergites 2 and following, dorsal view.