Apanteles persephone Nixon, 1965

Apanteles persephone Nixon, 1965 View in CoL

Fig. 6 B View Figure 6 ( distribution), Fig. 37 B (holotype View Figure 37 )

Holotype information.

♀; Australia, WA, Yanchep , 3–19 Dec. 1935, R. E. Turner leg. ( NHM).

Examined material.

Image of the holotype and original description used to form the diagnosis.

Diagnosis.

Apanteles persephone is a difficult species to diagnose due to us having access to only a single image of the holotype. The species can be separated from many Apanteles in Australia by the dark metacoxa and metafemur, antenna of similar length to the body length, uniformly coloured pterostigma, fore wing veins 1 M and 1 CUa of similar pigmentation, hyaline fore wing membrane, parallel-sided and rugose T 1, smooth T 2, smooth mesoscutellar disc, and setae reduced to a single row on each of T 3 – T 6. Apanteles persephone is difficult to diagnose against A. darthvaderi and A. amicalis (see key and notes under those species for more information).

Notes.

Whilst we collected several species that closely resembled A. persephone , we hesitate to designate any of our delimited lineages as this species without either DNA of the type, or at minimum a specimen from close to the type locality (currently not available).