Phanerotoma witchelinaensis Kittel & Austin 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kittel, Rebecca N.
name: Austin, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotoma
Phanerotoma witchelinaensis

description: Phanerotoma witchelinaensis sp. nov.
(Figures 14a – d, 16)
Description
Body measurements. Length of body 2.9 – 3.5 mm females, 3.0 – 3.5 mm males; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.88; ratio of length of metasoma to mesosoma 1.2.
Head. Ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.2; ratio of length of third and fourth antennomere 2.4 and 2 their width, respectively; ratio of length of eye in dorsal view to length of temple 2.2; ratio of width of face in anterior view to its height 1.7; ratio of width of clypeus to height 1.3; clypeus with two teeth, ratio of length malar space to base of mandible 0.6; face fine rugose; vertex and frons rugose; ratio posterior ocelli:LOL: POL:OOL 1.0:1:0.8:2.4
Mesosoma. Middle lobe of mesoscutum rugose; notauli present; mesoscutellum fine punctate; mesopleuron punctate; precoxal sulcus present; ratio of height of mesosoma to length 1.9; propodeal tubercles absent; blister on mid tibia present; ratio length of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.0; ratio of length of posterior spur to length of basal tarsus 0.4; ratio hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia and hind tarsus 1.7, 4.3, 5.7 and 20.0 times their width, respectively; fore wing: 2-R1 absent; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.4; ratio of width of pterostigma to its length 2.6; ratio r:3-SR:SR-1:r-m 1.0:1.3:7.7:1.15; 1-SR+M emanating from parastigma; 2-SR+M postfurcal.
Metasoma. Shape of metasoma oval in dorsal view, narrows down to posterior end; ratio of width of metasoma to its length 0.5; carapace flat in lateral view; ratio of keel to length of metasoma 0.17; carapace longitudinal strigose; both sutures straight; third tergite without lobes or teeth; ratio of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:1.2:1.9.
Colour. Head orange; antenna light brown; mesosoma reddish-brown except mesoscutum and mesosternum orange; legs light brown; first and second tergites beige, gradually darker (reddish-brown) towards posterior end; wing venation dark brown.
Diagnosis
This species differs from all other species by the shape of the carapace. The last tergite of the carapace has a long triangular shape.
Specimens examined
Holotype, Australia (South Australia): 1 ♀, “ 14 October 2010, Witchelina Station 30° 05 ʹ 44 ″ S, 138°08 ʹ 09 ″ E, R. Kittel, sweeping; Bush Blitz survey RK035 on Acacia sp. ” (SAM). Other material, Australia (Queensland): 1 ♀, Eurimbula, Miriam Vale distr. Site 4, 27 March 1975, D.K. McAlpine, MV light (AMS K358188); 1 ♀, S.E. Queensland Beerwak, 26.51°S, 152.57°E, 28 September – 29 October 86, B.K. Cantrell, M.T. (WINC); 1 ♂, Bertiehaugh Creek, 12.12°S, 142.22°E, 13 August 1993, P. Zborowski and J. Balderson, LT (ANIC); 1 ♂, Heathlands, 11.45°S, 142.35°E, 15 – 26 January 1992, I.D. Naumann and T. Weir, LT (ANIC); Western Australia: 1 ♀, Pilganoova Well, 25 May 1953, T.B. Tindale (SAM); 1 ♀, Kanjini NP, Mt Bruce Rd, Hamersley, 22°37 ʹ 27 ″ S, 118°20 ʹ 47 ″ E, 25 April – 1 May 2003 Lambkin and Weir, MT, 755 m, dry rocky creekbed (ANIC); 2 ♀♀, Leeuwin Naturaliste NP, Gnarabug Cave, 34°03.014'S, 115°01.501'E, 5 November 2011, Kittel and Krieger, sweep (WAM SF008307-18, 19).
Biology
Unknown.
Etymology
Named after the type locality Witchelina Station.
Distribution
Found in South Australia (Witchelina Station), Queensland, and Western Australia (Figure 16).
CO1 sequence
Genbank accession number for this species is KJ438593.
description: Published as part of Kittel, Rebecca N. & Austin, Andrew D., 2015, New species of Australian arid zone chelonine wasps from the genera Phanerotoma and Ascogaster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) informed by the ' Bush Blitz' surveys of national reserves, pp. 211-262 in Journal of Natural History 50 on pages 258-259, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1074747, http://zenodo.org/record/3983279