Glyptapanteles ruhri 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 ruhri

description: Glyptapanteles ruhri Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov.
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Figs 13B, 50
Diagnosis
Glyptapanteles ruhri 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 rodriguezae sp. nov., by having the hind femur pale in colouration, the propodeum punctate with smooth areas between punctures and with little-tono rugosity and T1 punctured in the posterior half. There was no external morphological character found which easily separates G. ruhri sp. nov. from G. rodriguezae 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
Named for researcher Peter Rühr, who was part of the collection of the type specimen and contributed to the success of a field trip in northern QLD in 2019 that led to the collection of many important microgastrine specimens.
Material examined
Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Queensland, Hallorans Hill Lookout, Atherton; -17.268, 145.4917268; 858 m a.s.l.; 21 Nov. 2019; E. Fagan-Jeffries, J.B. Dorey and P. Rühr leg.; sweeping vegetation; Extraction1198, BOLD: AUGLY071-21; QM T250986.
Paratypes AUSTRALIA – Queensland • 1 ♂; Woonoonooroon National Park scenic drive; -17.585, 145.7028957; 674 m a.s.l.; 21 Nov. 2019; E. Fagan-Jeffries, J.B. Dorey and P. Rühr leg.; sweeping vegetation; Extraction832, BOLD: AUGLY001-21; QM T250987 • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; Extraction844, BOLD: AUGLY002-21; QM T250988 • 1 ♀ (ethanol); Lamington National Park; -28.21, 153.139; 474 m a.s.l.; 9–19 Apr. 2007; C. Lambkin and N. Starick leg.; IBISCA Plot # IQ- 500-C rainforest Malaise trap; Extraction636, BOLD: AUMIC418-18; QM T208406 • 1 ♀; Lamington National Park; -28.148, 153.137; 267 m a.s.l.; 8–18 Jul. 2007; C. Lambkin and N. Starick leg.; IBISCA Plot # IQ-300-A rainforest Malaise trap; Extraction639, BOLD: AUMIC420-18; QM T208407.
Description
Female
COLOURATION. Gena without a pale spot; labrum pale or reddish-brown; scape colour in ventral half uniformly paler than flagellomeres;flagellomeres all black/dark brown or uniformly reddish-brown; tegula pale; wing veins uniformly black or brown, or with small lighter area proximally; anteromesoscutum all dark or dark with significant orange patches on posterolateral corners; scutellar disk and metanotum dark; propodeum dark; fore coxa white; mid coxa white; 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 or dark reddish-brown; T2 lateral area same colour as sclerotised area, or only slightly paler or dark extends past indentation, but then pale; T3 dark or uniformly brown; T4+ dark or reddish-brown.
HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 1.9 mm; fore wing length 2.1 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.
HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.57–2.00; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 2.62– 3.00; OOD/POD 1.57–1.71; IOD/POD 1.43.
MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with very sparse, deep punctures; scutellar disk sculpturing with only very shallow punctures, smooth and shiny; 9–10 pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina absent, irregular rugose sculpturing along centre line with punctures in anterior half of propodeum, postero-lateral areas smooth or median carina absent, propodeum mostly punctate with some irregular shallow rugosity in centre, postero-lateral corners smooth and shiny.
WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.53 mm; pterostigma width 0.16 mm; r 0.22 mm; 2RS 0.14 mm; 2m 0.08 mm; (RS+M)b 0.06 mm.
METASOMA. T1 lateral edges parallel for anterior 3/4 of length, then narrowing posteriorly; T1 mostly smooth, some punctures in posterior half; T1 length 0.30 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.14 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth and shiny, or smooth with some very shallow punctures in posterior half; T2 length 0.14 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.2 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.
Male
As female, 7–10 pits in scutellar sulcus.
Remarks
Glyptapanteles ruhri sp. nov. constitutes BIN BOLD:ADL3583 and is 6.25% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:AAU5026; Glyptapanteles rodriguezae sp. nov.).
Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 6.4% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (BOLD: ASQAS187-11, which was not included in the original study and AUGLY062-21; Glyptapanteles rodriguezae sp. nov.). All five type specimens were sequenced for the wingless gene, which is identical among the type specimens and differs by a minimum of 6 bp from all other species with available sequence data.
Distribution
This species is known from a significant stretch of eastern QLD, from Atherton in northern QLD to Lamington National Park, south of Brisbane.
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 101-103, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.792.1647, http://zenodo.org/record/6037052