Phanerotoma bushblitz 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 bushblitz

description: Phanerotoma bushblitz sp. nov.
(Figures 10a – d, 16)
Description
Body measurements. Length of body 3.25 – 3.5 mm females, 3.0 mm males; ratio of antenna to body 0.8 – 0.9; ratio of length of fore wing to body 0.83 – 0.86; ratio of length of metasoma to mesosoma 0.8 females, 1.0 males.
Head. Ratio of length of third antennomere to fourth 1.0 – 1.1; ratio of length of third, fourth, penultimate and terminal antennomere 4.6, 4.2, 2.0 and 2.5 in females, 5.0, 5.0, 4.0 and 5.0 in males times their width, respectively; ratio of length of eye in dorsal view to length of temple 2.9 – 3.3; ratio of width of face in anterior view to its height 1.7; ratio of width of clypeus to its height 1.4 – 1.5; clypeus with two teeth; ratio of length of malar space to base of mandible 0.64; face, vertex and frons rugose; ratio posterior ocelli:LOL: POL:OOL 1.0:0.8:0.8:1.8 – 2.7.
Mesosoma. Middle lobe of mesoscutum rugose; notauli weakly present; mesoscutellum fine punctate; mesopleuron fine punctate; precoxal sulcus weakly present; ratio of height of mesosoma to its length 2.1 in females, 1.8 in males; propodeal tubercles absent; blister on mid tibia present; ratio of length of hind tibia to hind tarsus 1.0; ratio of length of posterior spur to length of basal tarsus 0.38 – 0.42; ratio hind coxa, hind femur, hind tibia and hind tarsus 2.1 – 2.3, 3.0 – 4.0, 4.5 – 4.8 and 15.0 – 16.0 their width, respectively; fore wing: 2-R1 present; ratio of length of 2-R1 to length of 1-R1 10.0 – 11.0; ratio of length of 1-R1 to length of pterostigma 1.0 – 1.2; ratio of width of pterostigma to its length 2.9 – 3.7; ratio r:3-SR:SR-1:r-m 1.0:2.6 – 3.0:12.0 – 15.0:2.0 – 2.2; 1-SR+M emanating from parastigma; 2-SR+M antefurcal or interstitial.
Metasoma. Shape of metasoma oval in dorsal view, ratio of width of metasoma to its length 0.6 – 0.7; carapace flat in lateral view; ratio of keel to length of metasoma 0.17 – 0.21; carapace rugose; sutures straight; posterior end of carapace indented; ratio of the three metasomal tergites 1.0:1.0:1.2 – 1.5.
Colour. Scape, pedicel and head orange; antenna brown; interocellar area dark; mesosoma reddish brown; fore and mid legs yellow; hind leg with brown tibia and femur; first two metasomal tergites beige; second tergite on the margin with a dark stripe; third tergite brown; wings golden infused; wing venation, parastigma and pterostigma brown.
Diagnosis
The wing venation 2-SR+M antefurcal makes this species unique among all Australian Phanerotoma.
Specimens examined
Holotype, Australia (South Australia): 1 ♀, “ 28 October 2010, Bon Bon Station 30° 25'28 “ S, 135°28'40 “ E, S. Mantel, at light; Bush Blitz survey SM178'' (SAM). Paratypes, Australia (South Australia): 1 ♀, 1 ♂, as holotype (SAM); 1 ♀, Bon Bon Stn, 30°25.48'S, 135°28.69'E, 24 – 30 October 2010, G. Taylor, LT, Bush Blitz survey (SAM). Other material, Australia (South Australia): 1 ♀, Bon Bon Stn, 30°25'28 “ S, 135°28'39 “ E, 28 October 2010, R. Kittel, Bush Blitz survey RK133, LT (SAM).
Biology
Unknown.
Etymology
Species names refers to the Bush Blitz programme, during which this species was discovered.
Distribution
South Australia (Bon Bon Station; Figure 16).
CO1 sequence
Genbank accession numbers for this species are KJ438627 and KJ438628.
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 246-248, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1074747, http://zenodo.org/record/3983279