Glyptapanteles Ashmead 1904
Creators: name: Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina
name: Whitfield, James B.
name: Janzen, Daniel H.
name: Winifred Hallwachs,
name: Dyer, Lee A.
name: Smith, M. Alex
name: Hebert, Paul D. N.
name: Fernandez-Triana, Jose L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Glyptapanteles

description: Glyptapanteles Ashmead, 1904 Type species. <i>Glyptapanteles manilae</i> Ashmead 1904 = <i>Apanteles ashmeadi</i> Wilkinson 1928. Diagnosis. Hypopygium of female evenly sclerotized from side to side, never with a series of parallel longitudinal creases. Ovipositor sheath short and mostly concealed by hypopygium, its length not more than half of the hind tibia (rarely longer, but if so hypopygium is large and acutely pointed, concealing most of the ovipositor), sheaths dagger-shaped with only a few setae concentrated near the apex. Petiole on T1 never wider at the apex, the sides either gradually converging distally or parallel and strongly rounded to the apex. The median area on T2 broadening distally and often subtrapezoidal or truncate-trapezoidal, sometimes lateral grooves delimiting the median area are lost among many diverging aciculations and sometimes do not reach the proximal edge of T3; T3 always smooth. Propodeum usually completely or mostly smooth, but often with coarsely sculpture covering all or part of the surface; rarely with a median longitudinal carina, but never with even a trace of the areola. Fore wing with r-m vein absent, so that the small areolet is open distally. Distal half of margin of vannal lobe of hind wing convex or flattened, with or without a fringe of setae. The anterior furrow of metanotum flattened (without sublateral setiferous projections) and glabrous; scutellar phragma exposed or concealed (Mason 1981). A dataset of 126 characters and 484 character-states was evaluated for each species and was used to provide uniformity for all species descriptions. In total, 20 character-states were found in all the species and they have therefore not been taken into account in the descriptions. They are: <i>Head</i>: pubescence on the head long and dense, placodes of proximal antennal flagellomeres arranged in two ranks, apex of distal antennal flagellomere pointed, antennal scrobes-frons shallow, toruli more than half total eye length, carina surrounding antennal scrobes and fronto-clypeal suture both absent, vertex medially convex and slightly dented, and occiput concave. Although the length of the three proximal antennal flagellomeres was always longer than wide it was conserved in the descriptions and their length was provided. <i>Mesosoma</i>: mesosoma dorso-ventrally convex, mesoscutum relatively setose, notauli absent, lunules smooth and semicircular, pleural suture in the metapleuron absent although a dark groove is visible, and median fovea in metapleuron present. <i>Legs</i>: antennal cleaner apparatus with a forked spur at the fore tibial apex and proximal weak emargination on fore basitarsus. <i>Wings</i>: hind wing with spectral junction among 2RS, 2M and (RS+M)b veins. <i>Metasoma</i>: Antero-median depression on petiole present, and pubescence adjacent to spiracle on T1 dense. Key to <i>Glyptapanteles</i> species from Costa Rica and Ecuador Species descriptions
description: Published as part of <i>Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina, Whitfield, James B., Janzen, Daniel H., Winifred Hallwachs,, Dyer, Lee A., Smith, M. Alex, Hebert, Paul D. N. &amp; Fernandez-Triana, Jose L., 2019, A species-level taxonomic review and host associations of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an emphasis on 136 new reared species from Costa Rica and Ecuador, pp. 1-685 in ZooKeys 890</i> on page 1, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.890.35786
description: {"references": ["Ashmead, WH, 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Philippines islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28: 127 - 158", "Mason, WRM, 1981. The polyphyletic nature of Apanteles Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a phylogeny and reclassification of Microgastrinae. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 115: 1 - 147"]}