Phaenoglyphis xanthochroa Forster 1869
Creators: name: Vogel, Jonathan
name: Peters, Ralph S.
name: Selfa, Jesús
name: Ferrer-Suay, Mar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Figitidae
Phaenoglyphis
Phaenoglyphis xanthochroa

description: Phaenoglyphis xanthochroa Förster, 1869
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: GBOL III; individualCount: 1; sex: female; disposition: in collection; occurrenceID: F7C172B0-1FB9-5483-8FBB-7BFC0D8FCAD5; Taxon: family: Figitidae; genus: Phaenoglyphis; specificEpithet: xanthochroa; scientificNameAuthorship: Förster, 1869; Location: country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Hesse; municipality: Waldeck-Frankenberg; locality: National park Kellerwald-Edersee, Banfehaus; verbatimElevation: 265 m; decimalLatitude: 51.167; decimalLongitude: 8.9749; Identification: identifiedBy: Mar Ferrer-Suay; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: eventID: 1078; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap (Krefeld type); eventDate: 2021-7 / 8 - 22 / 5; year: 1869; habitat: old floodplain of the Banfe; Record Level: language: en; institutionID: ZFMK; collectionID: ZFMK-TIS- 2632857; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: GBOL III; individualCount: 1; sex: female; disposition: in collection; occurrenceID: BEA0E06B-AE5C-5D91-83C0-77F79133F67B; Taxon: family: Figitidae; genus: Phaenoglyphis; specificEpithet: xanthochroa; scientificNameAuthorship: Förster, 1869; Location: country: Germany; countryCode: DE; stateProvince: Hesse; municipality: Waldeck-Frankenberg; locality: National park Kellerwald-Edersee, Maierwiesen; verbatimElevation: 365 m; decimalLatitude: 51.1555; decimalLongitude: 9.0015; Identification: identifiedBy: Mar Ferrer-Suay; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: eventID: 1033; samplingProtocol: Malaise trap (Krefeld type); eventDate: 2021-6 / 7 - 22 / 8; year: 1869; Record Level: language: en; institutionID: ZFMK; collectionID: ZFMK-TIS- 2641256; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Diagnosis
Phaenoglyphis xanthochroa is easily differentiated from the other Phaenoglyphis species by its dark yellow body and deeply excavated notauli (Fig. 4 g).
Molecular characterisation
Maximum barcode-distance within species: 2.3 % (2).
Minimum barcode-distance to closest species: 10.7 % (P. villosa).
Consensus barcode sequence (652 bp):
5 ’ - GATTTTATATTTTATTTTTGGGATTTGGTCAGGAATAATTGGCTCAGCTTTAAGAATAATTATTCGAATAGAATTAGGAACCCCTTCTCAATTGATTGGTAATGATCAAATTTATAATTCAATTGTAACAGCTCATGCTTTTATTATAATTTTTTTTATAGTTATACCAATTATAGTAGGTGGGTTTGGGAATTATTTAATTCCTTTAATATTATCAGCCCCTGATATAGCTTTCCCACGTTTAAATAATATAAGATTTTGGTTATTAATCCCAGCTTTATTTCTATTAATTATAAGAATATTTATTGATCAAGGGGCAGGGACTGGATGAACTGTTTACCCTCCTTTATCTTCAAATTTAGGTCATTCTGGGATTTCTGTTGATTTAACAATTTTTTCACTTCATTTAAGAGGAGTATCTTCAATTTTAGGGGCAATTAATTTTATTTCAACAATTTTAAATATACGAATTATTARAATAGATAAAATTTCATTATTTATTTGATCAATTTTTTTAACAACAATTTTATTATTATTGTCTTTACCTGTTTTAGCTGGAGGTATTACTATATTATTATTTGATCGAAATTTAAATACTTCTTTTTTTGACCCTATAGGAGGAGGAGACCCAATTTTATACCAACATTTATTT- 3 ’
Distribution
Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, and United Kingdom: England (Ferrer-Suay et al. 2023).
Taxon discussion
The sequence with the BOLD-ID AMTPB 279-15 has an associated photograph uploaded on BOLD. The specimen shown exhibits the unique morphology of P. xanthochroa and the identity is further confirmed by an expert hymenopterist. These circumstances led us to include the specimen into the molecular characterisation of the species. Phaenoglyphis xanthochroa is so unique in morphology and shows a large distance to the barcode sequences of other Phaenoglyphis species that it leaves room for debate whether to put this species in its own genus. We refrain from doing so as we think that a more thorough molecular dataset needs to back up this decision and the practical use of a monotypic genus is very limited.
description: Published as part of Vogel, Jonathan, Peters, Ralph S., Selfa, Jesús & Ferrer-Suay, Mar, 2024, Characterising the north-western European species of Phaenoglyphis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with novel insights from DNA barcode data, pp. e 120950 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e120950, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e120950