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 : 18

Glyptapanteles mouldsi species group

The G. mouldsi species group can be distinguished from all of the other Glyptapanteles described from Australia by having the gena without a pale spot, T2 pale in colouration, with T1 darker than T2 and no median carina on the propodeum. It contains three newly described species: G. dowtoni Fagan-Jeffries, Bird &Austin sp. nov., G. mouldsi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird &Austin sp. nov. and G. rixi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov. The group is paraphyletic in the current phylogeny ( Fig. 2 ). The G. mouldsi species group is currently only known from the east coast of Australia, from northern QLD to central NSW ( Fig. 4E ).

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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.

Fig. 4. Distribution of species groups of Glyptapanteles Ashmead, 1904 in Australia. A. G. albigena species group. B. G. arcanus species group. C. G. austini species group. D. G. eburneus species group. E. G. mouldsi species group. F. G. niveus species group. G. Unplaced species of Glyptapanteles in Australia.