Glyptapanteles eburneus 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 eburneus

description: Glyptapanteles eburneus Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov.
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Figs 6B, 10A, 32
Diagnosis
Glyptapanteles eburneus sp. nov. is in the G. eburneus species group and can be separated from G. foraminous sp. nov. by having T2 pale, the same colour as T1 (G. foraminous sp. nov. has T2 dark). Additionally, the wingless sequences of the two holotype specimens are distinct and differ by 5 bp.
Etymology
The species epithet ‘ eburneus ’ is a Latin adjective for ‘ivory’ and refers to the pale colouration of T1–2.
Material examined
Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; New South Wales, Royal National Park. south end, Lady Carrington Drive Rainforest; -34.1482, 151.031; 24 Nov. 1996; A.D. Austin leg.; Extraction 439, BOLD: AUMIC274-18; AM K.517935.
Description
Female
COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum pale; scape colour in ventral half uniformly paler than flagellomeres; flagellomeres darkening distally; tegula pale; wing veins uniformly black or brown, or with small lighter area proximally; anteromesoscutum dark with significant orange patches on posterolateral corners; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa pale yellow; mid coxa pale yellow; hind coxa pale yellow; 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 pale; T2 sclerotised area pale; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler; T3 pale; T4 pale with dark patch in centre, then darkening posteriorly on T5–7.
HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.7 mm; fore wing length 2.7 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.
HEAD. Face densely sculptured, punctate reticulate; antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 2.16; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.62; OOD/POD 1.75; IOD/POD 1.75.
MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with deep punctures, space between punctures a mixture of smaller than diameter of punctures and of similar size; scutellar disk sculpturing with deep irregularly spaced punctures; nine pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina present and complete, rest of propodeum mostly smooth.
WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.62 mm; pterostigma width 0.23 mm; r 0.18 mm; 2RS 0.16 mm; 2m 0.10 mm; (RS+M)b 0.10 mm.
METASOMA. T1 wedge-shaped, narrowing posteriorly for entirety of length, lateral edges straight (but not parallel); T1 mostly smooth, some punctures in posterior half; T1 length 0.4 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.12 mm; T2 with curved lateral and anterior edges, becoming arch- or semicircle-shaped; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.17 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.3 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.
Male
Unknown.
Remarks
Glyptapanteles eburneus sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL5650 and is 2.4% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADL3303; Glyptapanteles foraminous sp. nov.).
Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 2.3% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC069-18; Glyptapanteles foraminous sp. nov.). The type specimen was able to be sequenced for the wingless gene, which differs by a minimum of 5 bp from all other species with available sequence data.
Distribution
This species is currently represented by a single specimen from Royal National Park, just south of Sydney.
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 57-59, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.792.1647, http://zenodo.org/record/6037052