Glyptapanteles aucklandensis (Cameron, 1909)

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 : 31-33

Glyptapanteles aucklandensis (Cameron, 1909)

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Diagnosis

Glyptapanteles aucklandensis was described from a single male specimen that is not in excellent condition; however, it can be separated from many of the Australian species as follows: from the G. albigena species group by the absence of a pale gena spot, from the mouldsi and eburneus species groups by having T1–2 dark and from the niveus species group by having a relatively smooth anteromesoscutum. With only the one male type available for examination, we cannot conclusively differentiate G. aucklandensis from other Australian species, although we note that it has a large number of pits in the scutellar sulcus

(>16) which, if consistent among the rest of the individuals in the species, would separate it easily. There is very little overlap between the Australian and New Zealand microgastrine fauna, with the Glyptapanteles from New Zealand on BOLD forming a distinct clade ( Fig. 1 ), so we feel there is little risk that this species is conspecific with any of the newly described ones from Australia.

Material examined

Holotype NEW ZEALAND • ♂; Auckland; “ P. Cameron Coll 191?-110”; NHMUK 3.c998 (only images examined).

Remarks

Host unknown.

Distribution

New Zealand (Auckland Is).

Figures

Fig. 21. Glyptapanteles aucklandensis holotype, ♂ (NHMUK 3.c998). A. Fore wing. B. Lateral head and mesosoma. C. Dorsal head and mesosoma. D. Propodeum and T1–2. Images © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London (CC-BY 4.0).

Fig. 1. COI ML phylogeny of all sequences identified as Glyptapanteles Ashmead, 1904 on BOLD as of 5 June 2021. Australian taxa are highlighted in red, New Zealand taxa in purple, Papua New Guinean taxa in yellow and taxa from Fiji in blue (only one lineage, difficult to discern in circular tree – see expanded phylogeny in Supp. file 5). Lineages in black are from elsewhere in the world.