Glyptapanteles rodriguezae 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 : 98-100

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles rodriguezae sp. nov. is in the G. arcanus species group and can be separated from the other members of the species group, other than from Glyptapanteles ruhri sp. nov., by the hind femur being pale in colouration and propodeum punctate with smooth areas between punctures and with littleto-no rugosity and T1 punctured in the posterior half. There was no external morphological character found which easily separates G. rodriguezae sp. nov. from G. ruhri sp. nov. and we do not provide a morphological diagnosis between these two species. The two species are sister lineages in the current phylogeny ( Fig. 2 ), but Glyptapanteles ruhri sp. nov. is 6 bp different in the wingless sequence from G. rodriguezae sp. nov. and>6% divergent in the COI barcode and we therefore feel confident that they are different species.

Etymology

This species is named for Dr Juanita Rodriguez, who was part of the team who collected the type specimen and who has an endlessly enthusiastic and collaborative approach to hymenopteran research.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Australian Capital Territory, CSIRO Black Mountain ; -35.2744, 149.1115; 6 Dec. 2017 – 5 Jan. 2018; J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, K.M. Bayless and T. Pleines leg.; Malaise 2, green dry wash; Extraction979, BOLD: AUGLY031-21; ANIC 32 130332 .

Paratype AUSTRALIA • 1 ♀; Australian Capital Territory, CSIRO Black Mountain ; -35.268, 149.1066; 650 m a.s.l.; 11–25 Feb. 2020; K.M. Bayless leg.; Y-shaped wash, Malaise trap collapsed by flood; Extraction1138, BOLD: AUGLY062-21; ANIC 32 130333 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum reddish-brown; scape colour in ventral half uniformly paler than flagellomeres; flagellomeres all black/dark brown or darkening distally; 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 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; mid tibia pale yellow; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus light brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark; T2 lateral area much paler; T3 mostly pale with darker patch in centre or mostly dark with paler lateral areas; T4–5 pale with dark patch in centre, then darkening posteriorly on T6–7.

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

HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.83–2.16; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 2.87– 3.00; OOD/POD 1.75–2.17; IOD/POD 1.38–2.00.

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 shallow punctures scattered over most of area; 10–11 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent, propodeum punctate.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.63 mm; pterostigma width 0.22 mm; r 0.23 mm; 2RS 0.17 mm; 2m 0.12 mm; (RS+M)b 0.07 mm.

METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior ½ to ⅔ of length, then narrowing posteriorly; T1 mostly smooth, sometimes shiny, sometimes with punctures in posterior half and/or on lateral edges; T1 length 0.42 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.12 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth and shiny or with some shallow indistinct sculpturing; T2 length 0.15 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.26 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles rodriguezae sp. nov. constitutes BIN BOLD:AAU5026 and is 6.25% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADL3583; Glyptapanteles ruhri sp. nov.).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the DNA barcode of the holotype is 6.3% different from the most similar sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC418-18; Glyptapanteles ruhri sp. nov.). Both type specimens were sequenced for the wingless gene, which is identical between them and differs by a minimum of 6 bp from all other species with available sequence data. There is another specimen in the BOLD database, ASQAS187-11, which has an identical COI sequence, but the location data is listed only as Australia and there are no images available.

Distribution

This species is known from the ACT.

Figures

Fig. 49. Glyptapanteles rodriguezae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., A, C, E. Paratype, ♀ (ANIC 32 130333). B, D, F–G. Holotype, ♀ (ANIC 32 130332). A. Lateral habitus. B. Fore wing. C. Dorsal habitus. D. Lateral head. E. Dorsal metasoma. F. Dorsal head. G. Anterior head.

Fig. 2. Maximum likelihood phylogeny constructed using IQ-TREE ver. 1.6.12 of a concatenated COI and wingless alignment including Glyptapanteles Ashmead, 1904 from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji, with specimens of Cotesia Cameron, 1891 from Australia included for contextual placement of the genus. Branch support values are given as SH-aLRT support (%) / ultrafast bootstrap support (%), with symbols representing value ranges as follows: * = 96–100; • = 91–95; ^ = 85–90; - = <85.