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Three new species of Australian miracine parasitoid wasps collected by regional schools as part of the Insect Investigators citizen science project
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Vol.98(4), pp.19-45
2025
Abstract
Miracinae is a poorly known and rarely collected subfamily of parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Braconidae. Here, three new species are described from material collected by Australian regional schools as part of the Insect Investigators citizen science project and named in collaboration with students: Mirax supremus Slater-Baker, sp. nov., Mirax ceduna Slater-Baker, sp. nov. and Mirax kaatijan Slater-Baker, sp. nov. The barcoding region of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene was obtained for each new species and analysed alongside all publicly available COI DNA barcodes for Miracinae on the Barcode of Life Database, to produce a molecular framework to guide species delimitation and efficient morphological examination. Full morphological descriptions are provided along with high quality images for each new species. A key to described Australian Miracinae is provided.
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- Title
- Three new species of Australian miracine parasitoid wasps collected by regional schools as part of the Insect Investigators citizen science project
- Authors
- Mollie-Rosae Slater-Baker - The University of AdelaideMichelle Guzik - The University of AdelaideJuanita Rodriguez - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationAndy Howe - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Forest Industries Research CentreAlice Woodward - Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board (Australia)Nathan Ducker - Western Australian Gould League (Australia)Erinn Fagan-Jeffries - The University of Adelaide
- Publication details
- Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Vol.98(4), pp.19-45
- Publisher
- Pensoft Publishers
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.3897/jhr.98.137806
- ISSN
- 1314-2607; 1070-9428
- Copyright note
- Copyright Mollie-Rosae Slater-Baker et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Grant note
- EPFJ was supported by Australian Biological Society Resources Study grants RG19-25 & NTRGI000021. MRSB is supported by the Archie McArthur Scholarship through the South Australian Museum and an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.
- Organisation Unit
- Forest Industries Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991096120702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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