Apanteles fundulus Nixon, 1965

Apanteles fundulus Nixon, 1965 View in CoL

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

Examined material.

Holotype. Australia • ♀; S. E. QLD; Tambourine Mts. ; 1–9 May 1935; R. E. Turner leg.

An image of the holotype held in the NHM (Fig. 37 A View Figure 37 ), with the description of the species ( Nixon, 1965) were used as the basis of the diagnosis of this species.

Diagnosis.

Apanteles fundulus can be separated from other species of Apanteles known from Australia with a dark metacoxa, dark metafemur, the pterostigma without a pale centre area, the ovipositor sheath length> 0.6 × metatibia length, and the antenna similar length to the body by the metatibia mostly pale with a darker area only in the distal 1 / 3, T 1 mostly smooth, with small rugose ‘ trough’ in centre, the pterostigma with small pale spot at proximal corner; and setae on T 3 – T 6 reduced to single row at posterior edge of tergite.

Notes.

We do not believe we have collected any material of A. fundulus in this study. As with all species before the advent of DNA barcoding, if it was possible to sequence DNA of the type, the placement of A. fundulus amongst modern material would be more certain.