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- <p><i>Apanteles translucentis</i> Slater-Baker, Fagan-Jeffries, Fernández-Triana, Portmann & Oestmann sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 5 C (distribution), Fig. 59 (holotype)</p><p><b>Type material.</b></p><p><b><i>Holotype</i>.</b> Australia • ♀; QLD, Banana, Roadside few km south of Banana; - 24.013, 150.88; 25 Nov. 2019; E. Fagan-Jeffries, J. B. Dorey & P. Ruhr leg.; sweeping vegetation; BOLD Process ID: AUMIC 1230-24; QM: T 261214.</p><p><b>Diagnostic description.</b></p><p><i>Size</i>: Total body length: 2.8 mm; fore wing length: 2.9 mm. <i>Head</i>: anterior scape colour similar or only very slightly paler than head colour; F 2 L / W ratio: 2.3; F 14 L / W ratio: 1.1. <i>Mesosoma</i>: scutoscutellar sulcus with 11 pits; mesoscutellar disc mostly smooth, or with very shallow scattered indentations; propodeal areola complete, or mostly so; propodeum mostly rugose; coxae colour (pro, meso, meta): dark all; metafemur colour mostly dark. <i>Wings</i>: centre of pterostigma paler (more hyaline) than outer edges; fore wing r vein length / 2 RS vein length ratio: 1.3. <i>Metasoma</i>: T 1 shape mostly parallel, T 1 medial length / anterior width between 1–2 × longer than wide; mostly rugose; T 2 mostly smooth; ovipositor sheath length / metatibia length ratio: 1.2.</p><p><i>Apanteles translucentis</i> can be separated from the other species of <i>Apanteles</i> in Australia which have the metacoxa and metafemur dark and the pterostigma with a paler centre by having fore wing with veins M + CU, 1 cu-a, 1 M, 1 CUa, 1 CUb, (RS + M) a, 2 RS, and 1 m-cu all unpigmented or transparent, T 1 with strong rugose sculpturing and the metatibia mostly pale. <i>Apanteles translucentis</i> cannot be easily separated from <i>A. aeternus</i> using morphology, but the two species cluster discretely using COI and <i>wg</i> barcodes.</p><p><b>Etymology.</b></p><p>The species epithet is a Latin participle (in the genitive case) of <i>translucens</i>, meaning translucent, and refers to the centre of the pterostigma.</p><p><b>Distribution.</b></p><p><i>Apanteles translucentis</i> is currently only known from one collection record in northern QLD, from the town of Banana (which is famously named after a yellowish coloured bullock called “ Banana ”).</p><p><b>Molecular information.</b></p><p>The DNA barcode of the holotype of <i>Apanteles translucentis</i> is the only sequence currently in – BIN BOLD: AFR 5983. The COI sequence is at least 4 % divergent from any of the other species treated here, or any available sequence on BOLD. The <i>wg</i> sequence of the holotype is at least 4 bp different to any other species. BINs, 2 % divergent threshold, COI PTP and <i>wg</i> haplotypes resolved <i>A. translucentis</i> as a discrete species, whilst <i>wg</i> ASAP grouped it with <i>A. oenone</i>. COI ASAP and <i>wg</i> PTP grouped <i>A. translucentis</i>, <i>A. oenone</i>, and <i>A. aeternus</i> together. This complex of species is not well resolved and would benefit from more intensive study to better establish species boundaries.</p>