Glyptapanteles mouldsi 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 : 89-91

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

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles mouldsi sp. nov. is in the G. mouldsi species group and can be separated from the other two species in the group ( G. rixi sp. nov. and G. dowtoni sp. nov.) by the metasomal sternites being all pale yellow other than the hypopygium, which is dark and T4–5 all pale/yellow. Glyptapanteles rixi sp. nov. and G. dowtoni sp. nov. have S5+ dark and T4–6 with at least some dark areas, or completely dark. The wingless sequences of the three species differ by at least 6 bp and the COI differs by at least 4.3%.

Etymology

This species is named for Dr Max Moulds, who collected the type series, along with many other specimens, whilst kindly running a Malaise trap for this and other microgastrine projects at Kuranda, north QLD.

Material examined

Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Queensland, Kuranda ; -16.8135, 145.6430586; 317 m a.s.l.; 12 Feb.–6 Apr. 2020; M.S. Moulds leg.; Malaise Trap EFJ2020MT36; Extraction1562, BOLD: AUGLY108-21; QM T250976 .

Paratypes AUSTRALIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1559, BOLD: AUGLY106-21; QM T250977 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; 16 Mar.–12 Apr. 2017; Extraction552, BOLD: AUMIC343-18; QM T250978 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; 18 Apr.–8 Jul. 2017; Extraction735, BOLD: AUMIC488-18; QM T250979 .

Description

Female

COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum mostly dark or reddish-brown; scape colour in ventral half either uniformly paler than flagellomeres, or the same colour or darker than flagellomeres; flagellomeres 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 dark; mid coxa dark; hind coxa dark; fore femur pale yellow; mid femur pale yellow; hind femur orange to light brown; fore tibia pale yellow; mid tibia pale yellow; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus dark reddish-brown; T1 dark or dark reddish-brown; T2 sclerotised area pale; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler; T3–T5 pale, T6–7 darkening posteriorly.

HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.3 mm; fore wing length 2.2 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.

HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.83–2.16; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 1.77– 3.00; OOD/POD 1.37–1.71; IOD/POD 1.57–1.75.

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 deep or shallow, sparse, irregularly spaced punctures, more common on anterior lateral edges; 9–12 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent, strong punctures in anterior half, rugose sculpturing in posterior half.

WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.54 mm; pterostigma width 0.18 mm; r 0.28 mm; 2RS 0.12 mm; 2m 0.05 mm; (RS+M)b 0.1 mm.

METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior 1/4 of length, then gently narrowing posteriorly, lateral edges often with slight curve or lateral edges parallel for anterior ¾ of length, then narrowing posteriorly; T1 smooth and shiny, sometimes with shallow sculpturing along lateral edges or some shallow scattered punctures on lateral edges; T1 length 0.3 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.09 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.14 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.21 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.

Male

Unknown.

Remarks

Glyptapanteles mouldsi sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL3640 and is 4.87% (p-dist). divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:AEI8040, an undescribed lineage from Australia, with one specimen).

Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 5.2% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUGLY141-21; an undescribed lineage, with a single specimen). All four of the type specimens were able to be sequenced for the wingless gene and share a unique barcode, which differs by a minimum of 5 bp from all other species with available sequence data.

Distribution

This species is currently known from Kuranda in QLD.

Figures

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. 11.A–B. Glyptapanteles mouldsiFagan-Jeffries, Bird &Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (QM T250978). A. Dorsal metasoma. B. Lateral metasoma. C–D. G. dowtoni Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., paratype, ♀ (QM T250953). C. Dorsal metasoma. D. Lateral metasoma. E–F. G. rixi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (QM T250981). E. Dorsal metasoma. F. Lateral metasoma.

Fig. 45. Glyptapanteles mouldsiFagan-Jeffries, Bird &Austin sp. nov., paratypes, ♀. A–F. QM T250978. G. QM T250979. A. Lateral habitus. B. Fore wing. C. Dorsal mesosoma. D. Anterior head. E. Lateral head. F. Dorsal metasoma. G. Dorsal head.