Apanteles ippeus Nixon, 1965

Apanteles ippeus Nixon, 1965 View in CoL

Fig. 5 A View Figure 5 ( distribution), Fig. 42 View Figure 42 ( examined material), Fig. 43 B (holotype View Figure 43 )

Holotype information.

♀; Australia, Canberra , “ bred from Plutella maculipennis, (F. Wilson) ” ( NHM). Images of the type examined.

Examined material.

64 ♀, 13 ♂, 2?; from ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, and WA; see Suppl. material 3 for full collection details.

Diagnosis.

Apanteles ippeus can be separated from the other species of Apanteles in Australia that have a dark metacoxa and metafemur, the pterostigma without a pale centre, the ovipositor sheaths> 0.6 × metatibia length and the antenna of similar length to the body length by T 1 having very straight parallel sides, the pterostigma with large conspicuous pale spot and propodeal areola narrower than most species (i. e., as in Fig. 42 B View Figure 42 ).

Notes.

The specimens collected in this study were initially identified through a DNA barcode match to a specimen collected and sequenced as part of an investigation into predators and parasitoids in brassica crops in southern Australia ( Juen et al. 2012). Morphology aligned with that of the holotype of A. ippeus , reared from Plutella xylostella , a known pest of brassica in Australia, and we therefore consider this a reasonably reliable identification.