A new genus of Agathidinae with the description of a new species parasitic on Samea multiplicalis (Guenée)

Abstract

A new genus of Agathidinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), Neothlipsis, is proposed to include 10 species. Nine of these species were formerly included in the polyphyletic genus Therophilus Wesmael 1837, formerly referred to as Bassus. A new species, Neothlipsis parysae, parasitic on Samea multiplicalis (Guenée), is described. The ten described species transferred to Neothlipsis are:, Neothlipsis agathoides comb. n. for Bassus agathoides Newton & Sharkey 2000; Neothlipsis agilis comb. n. for Bassus agilis Cresson, 1868; Neothlipsis brevicauda comb. n. for Bassus brevicaudus Muesebeck, 1932; Neothlipsis californica comb. n. for Bassus californicus, Muesebeck 1927; Neothlipsis cincta comb. n. for Microdus cinctus Cresson, 1873; Neothlipsis coleophorae, comb. n. for Bassus coleophorae Rowher, 1915; Neothlipsis discolor comb. n. for Microdus discolor Cresson, 1873; Neothlipsis nigricoxa comb. n. for Microdus nigricoxus Provancher, 1886; Neothlipsis petiolate comb. n. for Bassus petiolatus Muesebeck 1932; Neothlipsis taeniativentris comb. n. for Microdus taeniativentris Enderlein, 1920. Phylogenetic analyses support the sister relationship between the new genus and Camptothlipsis. The type material of the new species is deposited at the Hymenoptera Institute Collection at the University of Kentucky, the United States National Museum, the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, and the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum. Copyright Michael J. Sharkey et al.