Phylogenomics of braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) sheds light on classification and the evolution of parasitoid life history traits

Enigma moth parasitoid: a new Australian cyclostome genus and species, Ovaustra aurantia Tetley, Glatz & Fagan Jeffries, gen. et sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Kangaroo Island

“…This alignment was then aligned to the concatenated dataset of Jasso‐Martínez et al (2022a), which includes 13‐protein‐coding mitochondrial genes (including COI ) along with two ribosomal RNA sequences for an extremely broad variety of braconids. Using the best‐fitting partitions and models determined by Jasso‐Martínez et al (2022b) in their original analysis, a maximum likelihood analysis was conducted using IQTREE version 2.0.6 (Chernomor, von Haeseler, & Minh 2016; Minh et al 2020) and 1000 ultra‐fast bootstrap replicates (Hoang et al 2018) were run and displayed on the resulting tree.…”

“…Ovaustra can be separated from other Australian and New Zealand genera in the Mesostoinae s.l . + Maxfisheriinae clade (Quicke et al 2020a; Jasso‐Martínez et al 2022b), using characters in Table 1.…”

“…+ Maxfischeriinae comprise the monophyletic aphidoid complex that is basal in the cyclostomes s.l. (Jasso-Martínez et al 2022b).…”

“…Recent analyses have strongly supported a monophyletic Mesostoinae s.l . + Maxfischeriinae clade through numerous multigene (Quicke et al 2020a) and next‐generation sequencing phylogenies (Jasso‐Martínez et al 2022a, 2022b). In these analyses, another Australian endemic braconid genu ( Maxfischeria Papp, 1994) nests within other mesostoine genera.…”

Biological notes on Rhysipolis taiwanicus Belokobylskij (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Rhysipolinae)

“…Rhysipolinae is a small subfamily of koinobiont ectoparasitoids of lepidopteran larvae (Shaw 1983). According to the most recent phylogenomic research the group is the basal lineage of the rogadinoid subcomplex and the Leuriniinae should be included (Jasso-Martínez et al 2022a, 2022b. From the East Palaearctic and northern Oriental regions are 13 species of Rhysipolis Foerster known, which can be identified with the key by Zhang et al (2016).…”