Apanteles banrock Slater-Baker, Fagan-Jeffries, Fernandez-Triana, Portmann & Oestmann 2025, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Slater-Baker, Mollie-Rosae
name: Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P.
name: Oestmann, Katherine J.
name: Portmann, Olivia G.
name: Bament, Tiahni M.
name: Howe, Andy G.
name: Guzik, Michelle T.
name: Bradford, Tessa M.
name: McClelland, Alana R.
name: Woodward, Alice
name: Clarke, Sylvia
name: Ducker, Nathan
name: Fernández-Triana, José
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Apanteles
Apanteles banrock

description: Apanteles banrock Slater-Baker, Fagan-Jeffries, Fernández-Triana, Portmann & Oestmann sp. nov.
Fig. 4 B (distribution), Fig. 25 (holotype)
Type material.
Holotype. Australia • ♀; SA, Banrock Site 10; - 34.1891, 140.334; 21–22 Apr. 2018; R. Glatz leg.; Malaise trap; BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 590-23; SAMA: 32-47750. Paratypes. Australia • ♀; SA, Banrock; - 34.1891, 140.334; 20–21 Apr. 2018; R. Glatz leg.; Malaise trap; BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 575-23; SAMA: 32-47751. • ♀; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 576-23; SAMA: 32-47752. • ♀; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 578-23; SAMA: 32-47753. • ♂; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 577-23; SAMA: 32-47754. • ♀; as previous except: 21–22 Apr. 2018; BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 655-23; SAMA: 32-47755. • ♀; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 589-23; SAMA: 32-47756. • ♀; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 592-23; SAMA: 32-47757. • ♀; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 593-23; SAMA: 32-47758. • ♂; as previous except: BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 591-23; SAMA: 32-47759. • ♀; as previous except: Banrock site 8; - 34.1714, 140.314; BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 584-23; SAMA: 32-47761. • ♂; SA, Banrock Site 10; - 34.2045, 140.341; 20 Apr. 2021; R. Glatz leg.; on aquatic veg. (purple flowers and lanceolate leaves); BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 603-23; SAMA: 32-47760.
Diagnostic description.
Size: Total body length: 2.5 mm; fore wing length: 2.5 mm. Head: anterior scape colour similar or only very slightly paler than head colour; F 2 L / W ratio: 3.6; F 14 L / W ratio: 1.1. Mesosoma: scutoscutellar sulcus with nine pits; mesoscutellar disc mostly smooth, or with very shallow scattered indentations, sculpturing stronger in anterior half; propodeal areola complete, or mostly so; propodeum mostly smooth posteriorly, mostly rugose anteriorly; coxae colour (pro, meso, meta): dark all; metafemur colour mostly dark. Wings: centre of pterostigma paler (more hyaline) than outer edges; fore wing r vein length / 2 RS vein length ratio: 1.4. Metasoma: T 1 shape mostly parallel, then narrowing in distal 1 / 3; T 1 medial length / anterior width between 1–2 × longer than wide; T 1 mostly rugose; T 2 mostly smooth; ovipositor sheath length / metatibia length ratio: 0.8.
Apanteles banrock can be separated from most other species of Apanteles in Australia with a dark metacoxa and metafemur by the pterostigma with outer border darker than centre, centre of pterostigma pale or transparent / hyaline (but much less extreme than other species), the fore wing with M + CU, 1 cu-a, 1 M, 1 CU, (RS + M) a, 2 RS and 1 m-cu pigmented for most of their lengths, T 1 and propodeum with strong sculpture, and the propodeal areola strongly V-shaped.
Etymology.
This species is named for Banrock Station, the collection locality, to honour the commitment of the winery to restoring and protecting the natural environment. The epithet is a noun in apposition.
Distribution.
Currently known only from Banrock Station in the Riverland region of SA.
Molecular information.
Apanteles banrock contains sequences currently in BIN BOLD: AFF 1781. The COI sequences are at least 3.2 % divergent from any of the other species treated here, or any available sequence on BOLD. The wg sequence of the holotype is ≥ 11 bp different to any other species. All delimitation methods separated Apanteles banrock as a distinct species.
description: Published as part of Slater-Baker, Mollie-Rosae, Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Oestmann, Katherine J., Portmann, Olivia G., Bament, Tiahni M., Howe, Andy G., Guzik, Michelle T., Bradford, Tessa M., McClelland, Alana R., Woodward, Alice, Clarke, Sylvia, Ducker, Nathan & Fernández-Triana, José, 2025, DNA barcoding, integrative taxonomy, citizen science, and Bush Blitz surveys combine to reveal 34 new species of Apanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) in Australia, pp. 1-128 in ZooKeys 1227 on pages 1-128, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1227.130467