Phanerotoma Wesmael 1838
Creators: name: Kittel, Rebecca N.
name: Austin, Andrew D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Phanerotoma

description: Genus Phanerotoma Wesmael, 1838
(Figures 3, 8 – 14, 16 – 18)
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Type Chelonus dentata Wesmael, 1838: 165 (designated by Haliday, 1840: 63) IRSN (examined). Phanerotoma: Shenefelt 1973: 909, Zettel, 1988a: 216; Zettel 1988b: 199, 1989a: 318,
1989b: 528; van Achterberg, 1990: 10; Zettel 1990a: 4, 1990b: 147, 1990d: 1, 1990e:
153, 1990f: 336, 1991: 375, 1992a: 664, 1992b: 278; Kittel and Austin, 2014. For diagnosis of Australian taxa, see (Kittel and Austin 2014).
Comments
Van Achterberg (1990) stated in his diagnosis of Phanerotoma the presence of three distinctive clypeal teeth, although the number of teeth varies between two and three (Zettel 1990c). However, for Australia only a minority of species have three clypeal teeth, and belong to a species group including P. behriae, P. lutea sp. nov., P. novaguineensis and P. paci fi ca which have a reduced r vein and a much longer 3- SR vein.
The subgenus Bracotritoma was discussed by van Achterberg (1990), and a detailed key was provided to distinguish it from the subgenus Phanerotoma; however, Bracotritoma was later treated as a junior synonym by Zettel (1990c). The Australian Phanerotoma fauna consists of species which are not easily recognised as belonging to either subgenus, and thus we follow Zettel ’ s broader definition of the genus here.
Key to Phanerotoma from the Australian arid zone
1. Three teeth present on clypeus (Figure 8b); 3-SR long, at least 4 times as long as vein r (Figure 8e) ........................................................................................................................... 2
- Two teeth present on clypeus (Figure 9b); 3-SR short, shorter than the vein r or max. 2 times as long as r (Figure 9d)................................................................................... 3
2. First and second metasomal tergites white, third orange (Figure 8d); face, vertex and frons finely rugose (Figures 7b – c)..... ..... Phanerotoma behriae Zettel, 1988a
- All metasomal tergites completely yellow (Figure 12c); face, vertex and frons strigose (Figure 12b).................................................... Phanerotoma lutea sp. nov.
3. Carapace narrowing to a pointed posterior tip, in dorsal view (Figure 14d); ratio of first metasomal tergite to third> 1.8;........ Phanerotoma witchelinaensis sp. nov.
- Posterior end of carapace rounded in dorsal view (Figure 8d); ratio of first metasomal tergite to third <1.8; ........................................................................................... 4
4. Posterior end of carapace of female not indented (Figure 13a) .............................. 5 - Posterior end of carapace of female deeply indented (Figure 9d, arrowed) ...... 6
5. Carapace with tergites longitudinally strigose; face, vertex and frons finely rugose (Figure 7b – c)................ ................ Phanerotoma nigriscapulata sp. nov.
- Carapace with tergites rugose (Figure 11b); face, vertex and frons finely punctate (Figure 11d)............................ Phanerotoma decticauda Zettel, 1988a
6. All tergites of carapace rugose (Figure 10c); metasoma shorter (females) or equal (males) in length to mesosoma (Figure 10a).......... Phanerotoma bushblitz sp. nov.
- First and second tergites strigose, third tergite rugose (Figure 9d); metasoma 1.1 – 1.3 times as long as mesosoma (Figure 9a) ................................................................. ...................................................................................... Phanerotoma bonbonensis sp. nov.
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 230-234, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1074747, http://zenodo.org/record/3983279