A new parasitoid wasp, Aphaereta vondelparkensis sp. n. (Braconidae, Alysiinae), from a city park in the centre of Amsterdam

Kees van Achterberg; Menno Schilthuizen; Marrit van der Meer; Richard Delval; Claudia Dias; Marlene Hoynck; Heko Köster; Rudie Maarschall; Norbert Peeters; Peter Venema; Ryan Zaremba; Cristina Beltrami; Florinda Nieuwenhuis; Nicole de Rop; Iva Njunjić; Joris M. Koene

doi:10.3897/BDJ.8.e49017

A new parasitoid wasp, Aphaereta vondelparkensis sp. n. (Braconidae, Alysiinae), from a city park in the centre of Amsterdam

Kees van Achterberg, Menno Schilthuizen^*, Marrit van der Meer, Richard Delval, Claudia Dias, Marlene Hoynck, Heko Köster, Rudie Maarschall, Norbert Peeters, Peter Venema, Ryan Zaremba, Cristina Beltrami, Florinda Nieuwenhuis, Nicole de Rop, Iva Njunjić, Joris M. Koene

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Background The parasitic wasp genus Aphaereta Foerster, 1863, belongs to the large subfamily Alysiinae Leach, 1815 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and contains solitary or gregarious endoparasitoids of larvae of cyclorrhaphous Diptera living in decaying organic matter. New information A new species, Aphaereta vondelparkensis sp. n. (Braconidae, Alysiinae, Alysiini), from a city park in the centre of Amsterdam (Vondelpark) is described and illustrated. The species was discovered on a so-called taxon expedition, in which experts and citizen scientists collaborate on taxonomic projects. The finding highlights the fact that new animal species can still be discovered today, even in the busiest park of the capital of one of the best studied European countries.

Original language	English
Article number	e49017
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Biodiversity Data Journal
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e49017
Publication status	Published - 27 Jan 2020

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We thank Prof. Jiangli Tan (Northwest University, Xi'an) for her kind help in making the photos of the specimen from Amsterdam and for the possibility to compare with specimens from NW China (Shaanxi). Hans Huijbregts (RMNH) and Mark Lammers (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) for supplying the long series of reared Aphaereta species. We thank Remco Daalder, Louis Nobre Canha and Jeroen Favot of the municipality of Amsterdam for their help, support and hospitality.

Keywords

Alysiini
Decaying meat
Dipterous larvae
Endoparasitoid
Netherlands
New species
Palaearctic

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van Achterberg, K., Schilthuizen, M., van der Meer, M., Delval, R., Dias, C., Hoynck, M., Köster, H., Maarschall, R., Peeters, N., Venema, P., Zaremba, R., Beltrami, C., Nieuwenhuis, F., de Rop, N., Njunjić, I., & Koene, J. M. (2020). A new parasitoid wasp, Aphaereta vondelparkensis sp. n. (Braconidae, Alysiinae), from a city park in the centre of Amsterdam. Biodiversity Data Journal, 8, 1-10. Article e49017. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e49017

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