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Amblyaspis tatika Awad & Krogmann & Talamas 2023, comb. nov.

  • 1. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart; University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology, Biological Systematics (190 w), 70599 Stuttgart, Germany.
  • 2. State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart; University of Hohenheim, Institute of Biology, Biological Systematics (190 w), 70599 Stuttgart, Germany. & lars. krogmann @ smns-bw. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3724 - 1735
  • 3. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, FL, USA. elijah. talamas @ fdacs. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1048 - 6345

Description

Amblyaspis tatika (Szabó, 1977), comb. nov.

(Fig. 5D)

Trichacis tatika Szabó, 1977: 145

Type material examined. Holotype ♀, Tatika, 12 September 1952, Kaszab (HNHM).

Molecular analysis. The ASAP analysis revealed that all 170 records from Europe were conspecific and formed a clade with high support (Supplemental File 2). These records came from Belarus, Bulgaria, England, Germany, Finland, and Norway. Worldwide DNA barcode data from BOLD and GBOL indicated the existence of 11 to 13 species of Trichacis based on partitioning. The best ASAP score indicated the presence of 11 species, while the maximum likelihood tree recovered 13 distinct clades that could be considered putative species.

Of the 13 putative species on the tree, seven species were recorded only from Canada, two species from Canada and the USA, one from Tennessee, one from Florida, and one from Honduras. Backbone support was low, although the resulting tree places Isocybus as sister to Trichacis (Fig. 6).

Notes

Published as part of Awad, Jessica, Krogmann, Lars & Talamas, Elijah, 2023, Illuminating a Dark Taxon: Revision of European Trichacis Förster (Hymenoptera Platygastridae) reveals a glut of synonyms, pp. 563-577 in Zootaxa 5278 (3) on pages 573-574, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/7906722

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HNHM
Event date
1952-09-12
Verbatim event date
1952-09-12
Scientific name authorship
Awad & Krogmann & Talamas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Platygastridae
Genus
Amblyaspis
Species
tatika
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Amblyaspis tatika (Szabo, 1977) sec. Awad, Krogmann & Talamas, 2023

References

  • Szabo, J. (1977) Durch Ausleseapparat erbeutete Zehrwespen aus der Gattung Trichacis Forster, 1856 (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea, Platygasteridae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 30 (1), 143 - 145. [in German]