Apanteles breviflagellarius Slater-Baker, Fagan-Jeffries, Fernández-Triana, Portmann & Oestmann, 2025

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, ZooKeys 1227, pp. 1-128 : 1-128

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1227.130467
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:627B3463-87D6-4CA6-AAE1-B6F3CB412D75
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14852465
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/171BFB02-FD3D-5208-888E-FAC39F75F611
treatment provided by	ZooKeys by Pensoft
scientific name	Apanteles breviflagellarius Slater-Baker, Fagan-Jeffries, Fernández-Triana, Portmann & Oestmann
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Apanteles breviflagellarius Slater-Baker, Fagan-Jeffries, Fernández-Triana, Portmann & Oestmann sp. nov.

Fig. 4 C View Figure 4 ( distribution), Fig. 26 (holotype View Figure 26 )

Type material.

Holotype. Australia • ♀; QLD, Samsonvale Cemetery , 8.5 km SSE Dayboro; - 27.2703, 152.856; 50 m; 8 Feb. – 28 Mar. 2015; S. Wright leg.; Malaise trap; Casuarina / open forest; BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 081-18 ; QM: T 208355 . GoogleMaps

Diagnostic description.

Size: Total body length: 2.1 mm; fore wing length: 2.0 mm. Head: anterior scape colour similar or only very slightly paler than head colour; F 2 L / W ratio: 1.7; F 14 L / W ratio: 0.9. Mesosoma: scutoscutellar sulcus with 11 pits; mesoscutellar disc mostly smooth, or with very shallow scattered indentations; 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 pigmented to same degree as the outer edges; fore wing r vein length / 2 RS vein length ratio: 1.0. 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 smooth; T 2 mostly smooth; ovipositor sheath length / metatibia length ratio: 0.4.

Apanteles breviflagellarius is a slightly unusual species of Apanteles and quite distinct; it can be separated from other species of Apanteles in Australia by the dark metacoxa and metafemur, the short ovipositor sheaths and hypopygium with a ventral membranous area, the antennae shorter than the body length, pterostigma uniformly pigmented and T 1 strongly narrowing posteriorly.

Etymology.

The species epithet is a Latin adjective formed from brevi meaning short, and flagellum, relating to the short antennae of this species.

Distribution.

Apanteles breviflagellarius is currently only known from one specimen collected in southern QLD.

Molecular information.

Apanteles breviflagellarius contains sequences currently in BIN BOLD: ADI 5121. The COI sequences are at least 7 % divergent from any of the other species treated here, or any available sequence on BOLD. The wg sequence of the holotype is ≥ 12 bp different to any other species. All delimitation methods separated Apanteles breviflagellarius as a distinct species.