Genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead, 1904

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• Glyptapanteles Ashmead, W.H. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 28(1387): 127-158 [147].

  Type species:

   Glyptapanteles manilae Ashmead, 1904 (= Apanteles ashmeadi Wilkinson, 1928) by monotypy.

Introduction

Recognition of Glyptapanteles as valid is uncertain, with some authors treating it as a synonym of Protapanteles Ashmead, 1898. Fernandez-Triana et al. (2020) treat the genus as valid but state that the group needs more work, and note that the large number of tropical species suggest it may itself be polyphyletic. We follow Austin & Dangerfield (1992), Broad et al. (2016), Fernandez-Triana et al. (2020), Fagan-Jeffries & Austin (2021) and Fagan-Jeffries et al (2022) in treating the genus as valid.

More recently, Fagan-Jeffries et al (2022) increased the number of Australian species described in the genus ten-fold and provided a molecular phylogeny of the genus based on the cytochrome oxidase subunit one (COI) and wingless genes, along with a key to all 34 known species from Australia.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; ACT, NSW, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA: NSW North Coast (NNC) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, WA: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas: South East Corner (SEC) ; ACT, NSW, SA, WA: Gawler (GAW) ; ACT, SA, WA: Pilbara (PIL) ; NSW, NT, Qld: Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), New England Tablelands (NET) ; NSW, Tas: Tasmanian South East (TSE) ; NT, Qld: Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP) ; SA: Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; SA, Vic, WA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; SA, WA: Jarrah Forest (JF) ; WA: Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

General References

Austin, A.D. & Dangerfield, P.C. 1992. Synopsis of Australasian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with a key to genera and description of new taxa. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1-76 [32]

Broad, G.R., Shaw, M.R. & Godfray, C.J. 2016. Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Braconidae. Biodiversity Data Journal 4(e8151): 1-334 [248]

Fagan-Jeffries, E.P., Austin, A.D. & Citizen Science Participants of Insect Investigators 2021. Four new species of parasitoid wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) described through a citizen science partnership with schools in regional South Australia. Zootaxa 4949: 79-101 [89]

Fagan-Jeffries, E.P., McClelland, A.R., Bird, A.J., Giannotta, M.M., Bradford, T.M., & Austin, A.D. 2022. Systematic revision of the parasitoid wasp genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) for Australia results in a ten-fold increase in species. European Journal of Taxonomy 792: 1-116

Fernandez-Triana, J., Shaw, M.R., Boudreault, C., Beaudin, M. & Broad, G.R. 2020. Annotated and illustrated world checklist of Microgastrinae parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). ZooKeys 920: 1-1089 [561]

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