Glyptapanteles lambkinae 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 lambkinae

description: Glyptapanteles lambkinae Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov.
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Diagnosis
Glyptapanteles lambkinae sp. nov. is in the G. arcanus species group and can be separated from the other members of the species group, other than from G erucadesolator sp. nov., by having the propodeum with very coarse and strong rugose sculpting and T1 with strong sculpturing. Glyptapanteles arcanus sp. nov., G. vergrandiacus sp. nov. and G. goodwinnoakes sp. nov. also have coarse sculpturing on the propodeum (although to a lesser degree), but T1 is either smooth or with clear punctures (but not rugose sculpturing). It is noted, however, that all these species are morphologically very similar and identifications should be made with DNA barcodes. There was not a morphological character found to easily differentiate G. lambkinae sp. nov. from G. erucadesolator sp. nov., which are sister lineages in the current phylogeny (Fig. 2); however, as the species differ by 2 bp in the wingless sequence and the COI barcodes are>6% divergent, we feel confident that these are different species.
Etymology
Named for Dr Christine Lambkin, who collected the type material and EPF-J and ARD thank her for all her support and help over the years.
Material examined
Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Queensland, Lamington National Park; -28.155, 153.139; 282 m a.s.l.; 13–23 Jan. 2007; C. Lambkin and N. Starick leg.; IBISCA Plot # IQ-300-B, rainforest, Malaise trap; bulk vial 22139; Extraction601, BOLD: AUMIC387-18; QM T208402.
Paratypes AUSTRALIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1467, BOLD: AUGLY085-21; QM T250972 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction1471, BOLD: AUGLY089-21; QM T250973 • 1 ♀ (ethanol); same collection data as for holotype; Extraction599, BOLD: AUMIC383-18; QM T208401.
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; tegula pale; wing veins uniformly reddish-brown; anteromesoscutum all dark or dark with very slight orange patches on posterolateral corners; 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 orange to light brown; fore tibia pale yellow; mid tibia pale yellow; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus dark reddish-brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark reddish-brown; T2 lateral area dark extends past indentation, but then pale; T3 mostly pale with darker patch in centre or mostly dark with paler lateral areas; T4+ reddish-brown.
HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.7 mm; fore wing length 2.5 mm; antennal length similar to body length.
HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.12–1.62; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.00– 3.85; OOD/POD 1.43–1.71; IOD/POD 1.33–1.71.
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, sparse, irregularly spaced punctures, more common on anterior lateral edges; 10–11 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent, strongly rugose, sometimes with punctures in centre.
WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.62 mm; pterostigma width 0.21 mm; r 0.19 mm; 2RS 0.17 mm; 2m 0.11 mm; (RS+M)b 0.12 mm.
METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior ¾ of length, then narrowing posteriorly; T1 coarsely sculptured; T1 length 0.46 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.09 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth and shiny; T2 length 0.16 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.27 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.
Male
Unknown.
Remarks
Glyptapanteles lambkinae sp. nov. constitutes BIN BOLD:ADL3041 and is 6.09% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ADL3293; Glyptapanteles wrightae sp. nov.).
Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI sequence of the holotype is 6.1% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUGLY141-21; an undescribed lineage, with a single specimen). All four five specimens were sequenced for the wingless gene, which is identical within the species and differs by a minimum of 2 bp from all other species with available sequence data.
Distribution
This species is known only from Lamington National Park in southern QLD.
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 82-85, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.792.1647, http://zenodo.org/record/6037052