A New Distinctive Darwin Wasp Represents the First Record of the Ophion minutus Species-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae) from Japan and the Far East, with an Analysis of DNA Barcode-based Species Delimitation in Ophion.

ABSTRACT: A new Darwin wasp species, Ophion kobensis Shimizu sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae), is described using the integrated morphological and molecular species delimitation approaches. Our results indicate that the new species is closely related to European O. ventricosus Gravenhorst, 1829 of the O. minutus species-group but can be distinguished using morphological characters, such as entirely black body colour with some light-yellow marks and not inclined epicnemial carina in lateral view. This record of the new species represents the first record of O. minutus species-group from Japan and the Far East. Phylogenetic analysis indicate that the O. minutus species-group is weakly recovered as monophyletic and sister to Ophion s. str. The

SUBMITTER: Shimizu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10390328 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature