Teresirogas prestonae Quicke

Quicke, Donald L. J., Shaw, Mark R., Achterberg, Cornelis Van, Bland, Keith P., Butcher, Buntika A., Lyszkowski, Richard & Zhang, Y. Miles, 2014, A new Australian genus and five new species of Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), one reared as a gregarious endoparasitoid of an unidentified limacodid (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 3881 (3), pp. 237-257 : 249

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3881.3.3
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scientific name	Teresirogas prestonae Quicke
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Teresirogas prestonae Quicke & van Achterberg sp. nov.

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Holotype ♀ ( ANIC) “ 4 mi. W. of Coolibah HS, N.T., 15.34S 130.54E, 21 June 1968, M. Mendum”.

Paratypes: 1♀, “W.A., Homestead, Beverley Springs, 16.35S 125.29E, 31.v.1993, E.D, Edwards” ( ANIC); 1♀, “Qld., 7 km E Laura, 15.35S 144.30E, 27.v.1993, at light, P. Zborowski & A. Roach” ( ANIC) 1♀, “ 18 km NE by E Heathlands, Q., 11.40S 142.43E, 19.iii.1992, E.D. Edwards” ( RMNH).

Female. Body length 7.6 mm, fore wing length 6.8 mm.

Median carina of propodeum reduced. Fore wing vein 1cu-a distinctly antefurcal to subinterstitial. Vein 2-CU1 distinctly curved. Basal lobes of claws reduced.

Coloration. Head (except stemmaticum) and mesosoma orange, coloration otherwise rather variable; metasomal tergite 1 entirely pale (ivory), only basal half dark brown, or up to basal two-thirds dark brown; tergite 2 entirely pale or laterally partly darkened.

Etymology. Named after the influential Australian modernist artist, Margaret Preston ( 1875–1973), well known for her highly colourful paintings.