Glyptapanteles rodriguezae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.
name: McCLELLAND, Alana R.
name: Bird, Andrew J.
name: Giannotta, Madalene M.
name: Bradford, Tessa M.
name: Austin, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Glyptapanteles
Glyptapanteles rodriguezae

description: 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.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-116 in European Journal of Taxonomy 792 (1) on pages 98-100, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.792.1647, http://zenodo.org/record/6037052