Glyptapanteles harveyi 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 harveyi

description: Glyptapanteles harveyi Fagan-Jeffries, Bird & Austin sp. nov.
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Figs 5D, 6F, 7A, 38
Diagnosis
Glyptapanteles harveyi sp. nov. is in the G. albigena species group and can be separated all other members of the species group by having the pale spot on the gena barely visible, T2 dark and the propodeum with the median carina faintly indicated at anterior and posterior ends.
Etymology
Named for Dr Mark Harvey, who collected the type material and has generously run Malaise traps to collect microgastrine material, along with providing advice for many years on the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to EPF-J. We thank Mark for his dedication to robust taxonomic science and his support of early career researchers.
Material examined
Holotype AUSTRALIA • ♀; Western Australia, Gleneagle State Forest; -32.2711, 116.163; 8–9 Oct. 2005; M.S. Harvey leg.; Malaise trap; Extraction119, BOLD: AUMIC021-18; WAM E109888.
Paratype AUSTRALIA • 1 ♀; same collection data as for holotype; Extraction413, BOLD: AUMIC246-18; WAM E109889.
Description
Female
COLOURATION. Gena with a pale spot, but only weakly visible; labrum reddish-brown; scape colour in ventral half the same colour or darker than flagellomeres; flagellomeres all black/dark brown; 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 dark; mid coxa dark; hind coxa dark; fore femur orange to light brown; mid femur orange to light brown; hind femur orange to light brown; fore tibia orange to light brown; mid tibia orange to light brown; hind tibia darkening posteriorly; hind basitarsus dark reddish-brown; T1 dark; T2 sclerotised area dark; T2 lateral area dark extending past indentation, but then pale; T3 mostly pale with darker patch in centre or uniformly brown; T4+ reddish-brown.
HOLOTYPE BODY MEASUREMENTS. Body length 2.5 mm; fore wing length 2.6 mm; antennal length slightly longer than body length.
HEAD. Antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 2.16–2.4; antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 3.28–3.57; OOD/POD 1.86; IOD/POD 1.71–1.86.
MESOSOMA. Anteromesoscutum sculpturing with shallow punctures, space between punctures generally smaller than diameter of punctures; scutellar disk sculpturing with only very shallow punctures; seven pits in scutellar sulcus; propodeum with median carina very faintly indicated in posterior half, anterior half with some punctures, postero-lateral corners smooth and shiny.
WINGS. Pterostigma length 0.63 mm; pterostigma width 0.26 mm; r 0.14 mm; 2RS 0.1 mm; 2m 0.11 mm; (RS+M)b 0.1 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 0.37 mm; T1 width at posterior edge 0.07 mm; T2 an isosceles trapezoid, lateral edges straight; T2 smooth, some very shallow punctures in posterior half; T2 length 0.16 mm; T2 width at posterior edge 0.25 mm; ovipositor slightly protruding from end of metasoma.
Male
Unknown.
Remarks
Glyptapanteles harveyi sp. nov. constitutes BIN: BOLD:ADL3315 and is 5.33% (p-dist.) divergent from the closet BIN in the database (BOLD:ACL9711; Glyptapanteles sp. from New Zealand).
Using the BOLD Batch ID engine, the COI barcode of the holotype is 6.2% different from the most similar COI sequence from an Australian specimen (AUMIC482-18; Glyptapanteles aspersus sp. nov.). The two specimens were sequenced for the wingless gene and share a unique barcode, which differs by a minimum of 3 bp from all other species with available sequence data.
Distribution
This species is currently known from Gleneagle State Forest near Perth, WA.
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 72-74, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.792.1647, http://zenodo.org/record/6037052