A new species of the long-tailed wasp genus Euurobracon Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) from Java, Indonesia, is described and the type species redescribed

By

Quicke, Donald L. J.
Gafar, Dian
Watanabe, Kyohei
Butcher, Buntika

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1116

Pages

71--83

Subjects

16S , COI , cytochrome b , DNA sequences , Japan , mitochondrial genes , molecular analysis , Oriental , parasitoid wasp

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1116.84593

 

Abstract

A new species, Euurobracon bhaskarai, Quicke sp. nov., from West Java, Indonesia, is described, illustrated and differentiated from other members of the genus. It is closely related to the type species of the genus, E. yokahamae Dalla Torre, 1898, which is known from China, India, Japan, Laos, South Korea and Thailand. Euurobracon yokahamae is redescribed and illustrated for comparative purposes. The two species are separable mainly on colouration, but differ markedly based on their mitochondrial gene sequences (cytochrome c oxidase I, cytochrome b and 16S rDNA). The slower-evolving nuclear 28S rDNA and elongation factor 1-alpha did not differentiate E. bhaskaraisp. nov. from E. yokahamae, but consistently split Euurobracon into two species groups.