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FIGURE 5. Glyptapanteles drioplanetus holotype A in Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia
No full textFIGURE 5. Glyptapanteles drioplanetus holotype A) Dorsal habitus B) Fore wing C) Lateral habitus D) Dorsal head E) Anterior head F) Scutellar disk and propodeum.Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
FIGURE 7. Miropotes waikerieyeties holotype A in Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia
No full textFIGURE 7. Miropotes waikerieyeties holotype A) Dorsal habitus B) Fore wing C) Lateral metasoma D) Dorsal head E) Anterior head F) Lateral habitus.Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
FIGURE 2.Choeras ramcomarmorata A–C, E–G in Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia
No full textFIGURE 2.Choeras ramcomarmorata A–C, E–G Holotype; D Male paratype. A) Dorsal mesosoma and T1–2 B) Fore wing C) Lateral habitus D) Male dorsal habitus E) Anterior head F) Dorsal habitus G) Dorsal head.Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
FIGURE 1 in Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia
No full textFIGURE 1. Location of regional schools involved in Insect Investigators in 2019/2020. A) Map of South Australia. B) Portion of South Australia indicated by the red square in A showing the locations of the schools: Cowell Area School indicated by a blue circle, Macclesfield Primary School indicated by a green square, and Waikerie and Ramco Primary Schools (located very close to each other in the Riverland region) indicated by an orange star. The capital city of Adelaide is indicated by a red circle.Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 81, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
Dolichogenidea Viereck 1911
No full textDolichogenidea Viereck, 1911 Dolichogenidea Viereck, 1911: 173 (as a subgenus of Apanteles Foerster s.l.); generic status by Mason 1981: 34. Austin and Dangerfield 1992: 27. See Fernández-Triana et al. (2020) for a checklist and comments on the world fauna. Type species, by original designation, Apanteles (Dolichogenidea) banksi Viereck. Comments. Dolichogenidea has recently had the Australian fauna reviewed (Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2018a, 2019), which raised the number of species described from the continent to 15, with many more potential species identified from COI barcoding data (Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2019, Figure 8).Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on pages 86-87, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
Miropotes Nixon 1965
No full textMiropotes Nixon, 1965 Miropotes Nixon, 1965: 200; see Austin (1990) for a revision of the Australian fauna, Fernández-Triana et al. (2014a) for the first description of species outside Australia, and Fernández-Triana et al. (2020) for a checklist of the world fauna. Type species, by original designation, Miropotes creon Nixon, 1965. Comments. The Australian fauna of the genus Miropotes was revised for Australia by Austin (1990), and the genus was originally thought to be endemic to the continent. Fernández-Triana et al. (2014a) described the first species from outside Australia, raising the number of described species to 13 for Australasia, with the genus also known from the Oriental (one species) and Afrotropical regions (one species).Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
Choeras Mason 1981
No full textChoeras Mason, 1981 Choeras Mason, 1981: 76; Austin & Dangerfield 1992. See Fagan-Jeffries et al. (2019) and Fagan-Jeffries & Austin (2018) for a review and comments on the Australasian fauna; Fernández-Triana et al. (2020) for a checklist and comments on the world fauna. Type species: Apanteles (Pseudapanteles) consimilis Viereck, 1911, by original designation. Comments. Choeras Mason, 1981 has recently been reviewed for Australia (Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2019; Fagan-Jeffries & Austin 2018), with 12 species described from the continent. The Australian members of the genus as it is currently defined include two distinct, unrelated clades; a group of species with a small fore wing areolet, and group of species with a large fore wing areolet which contains species currently described as both Choeras and Sathon (Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2018b Figure 4b, Fagan-Jeffries et al. 2019 Figure 1).Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on page 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
Glyptapanteles Ashmead 1904
No full text<i>Glyptapanteles</i> Ashmead, 1904 <p> <i>Glyptapanteles</i> Ashmead 1904b: 147. For notes on the Australasian fauna see Austin & Dangerfield (1992) and for a checklist of the world fauna see Fernández-Triana <i>et al.</i> (2020).</p> <p> Type species, by monotypy, <i>Apanteles ashmeadi</i> Wilkinson, 1928: 84, a replacement name for <i>Glyptapanteles manilae</i> Ashmead, 1904a.</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> The description of a new species of <i>Glyptapanteles</i> will raise the number of species described from Australia from two to three, and this precedes a comprehensive revision of the genus, currently underway, which is expected to include at least 30 species.</p>Published as part of <i>Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1)</i> on page 89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4635871">http://zenodo.org/record/4635871</a>
Dolichogenidea franklinharbourensis Fagan-Jeffries & Austin 2021, sp. nov.
No full textDolichogenidea franklinharbourensis Fagan-Jeffries & Austin sp. nov. (Fig. 4) urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 01E75EAA-CC91-4A7D-B689-0E57C6C381B1 Material examined. Holotype: South Australia: ♀ Cowell Area School, -33.684293 136.917315, 16.iii–30.iii.2020, E. Fagan-Jeffries & Cowell Area School 4/5 class, 10 m, M/T, EFJ2020MT31, Extraction 1039 (SAMA: 32-45152, BOLD: AUMIC548-20). Paratype: South Australia: ♀ Andamooka Station, -30.8198802 137.1783585 to -30.6998403 137.1574435, R. Leijs, Vehicle net, Bush Blitz Lake Torrens, Extraction 568 (SAMA 32-035788, BOLD: AUMIC360-18). Diagnosis. This species is morphologically very similar to D. kelleri Fagan-Jeffries, 2019, but clearly distinct using both COI and Wingless DNA barcodes. In the specimens currently available, it can be differentiated by T3 with only sparse setae in the anterior half (D. kelleri with T3 regularly setate over whole length). Of the Australasian species without sequence data, this species most closely resembles D. miris, and can be separated from it by T2 smooth and shining (T2 shallowly sculptured in D. miris) and by flagellomere 14 slightly longer (antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.6 – 1.7, whilst in D. miris flagellomere 14 length/width approximately 1.2). Dolichogenidea franklinharbourensis can be separated from the remaining Australasian Dolichogenidea species in the following ways: • From D. biroi (Szepligeti, 1905), D. ilione (Nixon, 1967), D. lipsis (Nixon, 1967), D. tasmanica (Cameron, 1912) by the absence of a white gena blotch. • From D. acratos (Nixon, 1967), D. brabyi Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, D. eucalypti Austin & Allen, 1989, D. expulsa (Turner, 1918), D. forrestae Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, D. garytaylori Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, D. hyposidrae (Wilkinson, 1928), D. orelia (Nixon, 1967) by having ovipositor sheaths of similar length to the metatibia (all species listed here have ovipositor sheaths significantly shorter than metatibia). • From D. coequata (Nixon, 1967), D. cyamon (Nixon, 1967), D. finchi Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2018a, D. labaris (Nixon, 1967), D. mediocaudata Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2018, D. platyedrae (Wilkinson, 1928), D. xenomorph Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2018a by having ovipositor sheaths of similar length to the metatibia (all species listed here have ovipositor sheaths significantly longer than metatibia). • From D. bonbonensis Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, D. lobesiae Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019 by having a clearly differentiated white patch on the proximal third of the pterostigma. • From D. agonoxenae (Fullaway, 1941), D. carposinae (Wilkinson, 1938), D. gentilis (Nixon, 1967), D. heterusiae (Wilkinson, 1928) by having T2 completely smooth. • From D. hyblaeae (Wilkinson, 1928), D. inquisitor (Wilkinson, 1928), D. iulis (Nixon, 1967), D. stantoni (Ashmead, 1904) by the absence of a complete areola in the anterior half of the propodeum. • D. upoluensis (Fullaway, 1941), reared from a leaf-mining caterpillar on Ficus in Samoa, was described from a single male specimen, which was unable to be examined. Despite being unable to examine the holotype, we feel that D. upoluensis is highly unlikely to be the same species as that described here. Fullaway’s character, the “first tergite…a little wider at apex than at base, the sides then hardly parallel though straight” (Fullaway, 1941) could possibly be used to differentiate the species, as D. franklinharbourensis has T1 parallel sided. Description. FEMALE. Colour. Head, antenna and mesosoma all dark; all tergites and most of metasoma dark, non sclerotised areas of T1–2 and anterior sternites dark (but paler than sclerotised areas of dorsal tergites); hypopygium dark laterally and mostly dark ventrally, ovipositor sheaths dark; (fore-, mid-, hind coxa) dark, dark, dark; (fore-, mid-, hind- trochanter) all transitioning from dark to pale; femora (fore-, mid-, hind femur) mostly pale (in paratype, missing in holotype), pale with dark line along length, mostly dark with pale area at proximal end; tibiae (fore-, mid-, hind tibia) mostly pale (in paratype, missing in holotype), pale, pale transitioning to dark distally; hind tarsi light brown, all paler proximally than distally; tegula and humeral complex dark; pterostigma dark with small pale patch proximally; fore wing veins dark. Body length. Head to apex of metasoma: 2.8 mm. Head. Antenna approximately equal to body length; OOL/POD 1.9 (2.2); POL/ POD 2.7 (2.5); antennal flagellomere 2 length/width 2.7 (2.5); antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.6 (1.7). Mesosoma. Anteromesoscutum relatively smooth and shiny, shallowly and regularly punctate; number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus 12 (13); scutellar disc very smooth and shiny, with only shallow pits associated with setae; maximum height of mesoscutellum lunules/maximum height of lateral face of mesoscutellum 0.6. Propodeal areola clearly differentiated in posterior half of propodeum, with lateral carina clearly visible. In anterior half, areola only differentiated by denser sculpturing than surrounding area. Rest of propodeum mostly smooth and shiny with scattered punctures concentrated in the anterior third. Wings. Fore wing length 3.0 mm; length of veins r/2RS 1.3; length of veins 2RS/2M 1.4; length of veins 2M/(RS+M)b 1.1; pterostigma length/width 2.8 (2.4). Legs. Hind tibia inner spur length/hind basitarsus length 0.4. Metasoma. T1 length / T1 width at posterior margin 1.1; parallel sided, reticulate rugose sculpturing in posterior half with some areas verging on strigose, smooth area in posterior centre, T2 width at posterior margin / T2 length 3.8 (4.2), short and wide with curved lateral sides, very smooth, border with T3 very subtle, only very shallowly indented; T3 sculpture smooth and shiny with scattered setae concentrated in lateral posterior corners; ovipositor sheaths length/hind tibial length 1.1; ovipositor sharply angled approximately 45 degrees below the horizontal in the posterior third. MALE. Unknown. Etymology. This species is named by the 2020 Year 4/5 class of students of Cowell Area School, after the collection locality of the type specimen and the district where the school is located. The species epithet is an adjective. Distribution. This species is only known from South Australia, from one locality on the Eyre Peninsula and one locality in the central arid regions near Lake Torrens. Host. Unknown. Molecular information. Dolichogenidea franklinharbourensis forms BIN BOLD:ADL4429 and is 5.31% divergent from the nearest relative on BOLD.Published as part of Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1) on pages 87-89, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/463587
Choeras ramcomarmorata Fagan-Jeffries & Austin & Investigators 2021, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Choeras ramcomarmorata</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin sp. nov. <p>(Fig. 2)</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 233DB1DE-BF33-44B9-8E5C-878002D8851C</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> <b>Holotype: South Australia:</b> ♀ Ramco Primary School, -34.169522 139.93407, 19.v– 2.vi.2020, E. Fagan-Jeffries and Ramco PS 5/6/7 class, M/T EFJ2020MT40, Extraction 1673 (SAMA: 32-45151, BOLD: AUMIC550-20).</p> <p> <b>Paratype: Western Australia:</b> ♂ Albany Highway, Gleneagle State Forest, 3.iv–7.v.2005, M.S. Harvey, M/T, Extraction 1491 (WAM: WAME109656, BOLD: AUMIC551-20).</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species can be separated morphologically from the other Australasian members of the genera <i>Sathon</i> Mason and <i>Choeras</i> as follows:</p> <p> • From <i>C. calacte</i> (Nixon, 1965), <i>C. dissors</i> (Nixon, 1965), <i>C. papua</i> (Wilkinson, 1936), <i>C. parvoculus</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, and <i>C. zygon</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019 by having a large forewing areolet.</p> <p> • From <i>C. ceto</i> (Nixon, 1965), <i>C. tegularis</i> (Szepligeti, 1905), <i>S. albicoxus</i> Austin & Dangerfield, 1992, <i>S. moratus</i> (Wilkinson, 1929), <i>S. naryciae</i> Austin & Dangerfield, 1992, <i>S. oreo</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019, and <i>S. resplendens</i> (Wilkinson, 1929) by having a complete, strong medial carina on the propodeum.</p> <p> • From <i>C. epaphus</i> (Nixon, 1965), and <i>C. koalascatocola</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2017 by having T2 narrowing posteriorly.</p> <p> • From <i>C. helespas</i> Walker, 1996 by T1 without strong rugose sculpturing along length and T1 much wider anteriorly than posteriorly.</p> <p> • From <i>C. bushblitz</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2019 by the mesosoma being completely dark</p> <p> • From <i>C. morialta</i> Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2017 by the ovipositor gently curving (not strongly bent near tip).</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> FEMALE. Colour. Head, antenna and mesosoma all dark; all tergites and most of metasoma dark other than small pale patch at posterior end of T1, non-sclerotised areas of T1–2 and anterior sternites pale; hypopygium dark laterally with pale area ventrally, ovipositor sheaths dark (fore-, mid-, hind coxa) pale, pale, dark; (fore-, mid-, hind- trochanter) pale, pale, pale; femora (fore-, mid-, hind femur) pale to light brown, pale to light brown, mostly dark with pale stripe in proximal half; tibiae (fore-, mid-, hind tibia) pale to light brown, pale to light brown, dark with pale area proximally, all tarsi dark; tegula and humeral complex orange-brown; pterostigma dark; fore wing veins dark.</p> <p>Body length. Head to apex of metasoma: 4.0 mm.</p> <p>Head. Antenna slightly longer than body length; OOL/POD 1.7; POL/ POD 1.6; antennal flagellomere 2 length/ width 3.5; antennal flagellomere 14 length/width 1.9.</p> <p>Mesosoma. Anteromesoscutum punctulate, punctures small (space between punctures larger than their diameter, particularly in posterior two-thirds of anteromesoscutum, punctures slightly larger and closer together anteriorly); number of pits in scutoscutellar sulcus 12; scutellar disc very smooth with only tiny punctures associated with setae. Propodeum with medial carina present and complete, clearly distinguishable from surrounding rugosity. Propodeum coarsely rugose in centre, transitioning to smoother punctate areas antero-laterally.</p> <p>Wings. Fore wing length 4.0 mm; length of veins r/2RS 0.8; length of veins 2RS/2M 1.0; length of veins 2M/(RS+M)b 1.9; pterostigma length/width 2.9. Forewing areolet large, four-sided with sharp angle between veins 3RSa and rs-m, vein rs-m slightly curved at distal end.</p> <p>Legs. Hind tibia inner spur length/hind basitarsus length 0.4.</p> <p>Metasoma. T1 length / T1 width at posterior margin 3.1; narrowing posteriorly, smooth in anterior half, punctures associated with setae in posterior half; T2 width at posterior margin / T2 length 3.5, sclerotised area well differentiated from surrounding tergite, scattered punctures associated with setae, border with T3 smooth and only just distinguishable; T3 sculpture smooth and shiny; both T2 and T3 irregularly setose for all of length; ovipositor sheaths length/hind tibial length 1.9.</p> <p>MALE. Smaller in size than female, body length 3.3 mm; T1 lighter in colouration than female specimen, light brown anteriorly with dark area in centre, fading to pale posteriorly.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> Named by the 2020 year 5–7 students of Ramco Primary School, where the holotype was collected. The students chose to use the name of the school along with the epithet ‘marmorata’ from the Latin ‘marmor’, for marble, as they felt that the striking black and white colouration of the species, and variation of colours on the tergites, looked like polished marble. The species name therefore unconventionally combines a place name with a Latin adjective, and should be regarded as a noun in apposition.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Known from only a female specimen from the Riverland region, South Australia, and from a male specimen from Gleneagle, Western Australia.</p> <p> <b>Molecular information.</b> The species constitutes BIN: BOLD:AEF8695, and is 9.63% divergent from the nearest relative on BOLD.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> This species falls within a large clade of Australian species, all with a large forewing areolet, that morphologically are intermediate between the current definition of the genera <i>Sathon</i> and <i>Choeras</i> (Fig. 3). We place this species in the genus <i>Choeras</i> as there appears to be some flexibility in the hypopygium which would exclude it from the strict definition of <i>Sathon</i>, and because it is morphologically and molecularly closely related to <i>Choeras morialta</i>. However, we note that this clade may end up being recognised as a new genus, which is not related to the group of species that possess a small forewing areolet. To confirm and revise the genus, phylogenetic studies that include the type species of <i>Choeras</i> and <i>Sathon</i> will need to be conducted.</p>Published as part of <i>Fagan-Jeffries, Erinn P., Austin, Andrew D. & Investigators, Citizen Science Participants Of Insect, 2021, Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia, pp. 79-101 in Zootaxa 4949 (1)</i> on pages 83-86, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4635871">http://zenodo.org/record/4635871</a>
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