Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus Sericobracon Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae)

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SHAW"/> <meta name="DC.Date.created" scheme="ISO8601" content="2025-03-26"/> <meta name="DC.Date.dateSubmitted" scheme="ISO8601" content="2025-03-25"/> <meta name="DC.Date.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2025-03-26"/> <meta name="DC.Date.modified" scheme="ISO8601" content="2025-03-26"/> <meta name="DC.Description" xml:lang="en" content="Sericobracon Shaw is a small doryctine genus which was erected based on two species from Trinidad and the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix) in the Caribbean Sea (S. arimaensis Shaw and S. evansi Shaw). Its type species, S. arimaensis, was reported as endoparasitoid of an Embioptera species, which is a unique biology for known Braconidae. Here we describe three new species of Sericobracon from Costa Rica: S. paulmarshi Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Shaw, S. puravida Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Shaw, and S. zunigai Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Shaw. The former species is characterized with DNA barcoding, providing the first such molecular data for any species in this genus. We also investigated the phylogenetic affinity of the genus within the subfamily Doryctinae based on nuclear UCE data. Sericobracon was recovered within the main Neotropical doryctine clade closely related to Bolivar Zaldívar-Riverón &amp; Rodríguez-Jiménez and Parallorhogas Marsh. We discuss the higher taxonomic classification of Sericobracon and the latter two genera within the Doryctinae based on these relationships recovered and their shared morphological features. A key to species and digital photographs of the five described species of Sericobracon are provided. 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href="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9"> 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.9 </a> </span> </div> <div class="pages"> <span>Page range:</span> 171-185 </div> <div class="views"> <span>Abstract views:</span> 107 </div> <div class="views"> <span>PDF downloaded:</span> 7 </div> </div> <h1 class="jatsParser__meta-title"><strong>Three new species and phylogenetic affinity of the neotropical genus <em>Sericobracon</em> Shaw (Braconidae: Doryctinae)</strong></h1> <ul class="jatsParser__meta-authors"> <li><a class="jatsParser__meta-author-string-href" href="#author-1"><span class="jatsParser__meta-author">ALEJANDRO ZALDÍVAR-RIVERÓN</span><sup class="jatsParser__meta-symbol jatsParser__symbol-plus">+</sup><sup class="jatsParser__meta-symbol jatsParser__symbol-minus jatsParser__hide">−</sup></a><a class="jatsParser__meta-orcidImage" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5837-1929"><img src="https://mapress.com/plugins/themes/oldGregg/templates/images/orcid.png"></a></li> <li><a class="jatsParser__meta-author-string-href" href="#author-2"><span class="jatsParser__meta-author">RUBÉN CASTAÑEDA-OSORIO</span><sup class="jatsParser__meta-symbol jatsParser__symbol-plus">+</sup><sup class="jatsParser__meta-symbol jatsParser__symbol-minus jatsParser__hide">−</sup></a><a class="jatsParser__meta-orcidImage" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0507-5477"><img src="https://mapress.com/plugins/themes/oldGregg/templates/images/orcid.png"></a></li> <li><a class="jatsParser__meta-author-string-href" href="#author-3"><span class="jatsParser__meta-author">SCOTT R. 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P 04510; Ciudad de México; MÉXICO.</div> </div> <div class="jatsParser__details-author jatsParser__hideAuthor" id="jatsParser__author-2"> <div class="jatsParser__details-author-affiliation">Colección Nacional de Insectos; Instituto de Biología; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 3er Circuito Exterior s/n; Cd. Universitaria; Copilco; Coyoacán; A. P. 70-233; C. P 04510; Ciudad de México; MÉXICO.</div> </div> <div class="jatsParser__details-author jatsParser__hideAuthor" id="jatsParser__author-3"> <div class="jatsParser__details-author-affiliation">University of Wyoming; Department of Ecosystem Science and Management (3354); 1000 E. University Avenue; Laramie; WY 82071 USA.</div> </div> </div> <div class="jatsParser__keywords-wrapper"> <div class="jatsParser__keywords-row"> <span class="jatsParser__keyword">Hymenoptera</span> <span class="jatsParser__keyword">new species</span> <span class="jatsParser__keyword">embiid parasitoids</span> <span class="jatsParser__keyword">phylogenomics</span> <span class="jatsParser__keyword">DNA barcoding</span> </div> </div> </div> <div class="jatsParser__articleView"> <div class="jatsParser__left-article-block"> <div class="article-page__galleys"> <ul class="list-galleys primary-galleys"> <li> <a class="obj_galley_link pdf restricted" href="https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5613.1.9/55932"> <span class="pkp_screen_reader"> Requires Subscription or Fee </span> PDF(6.80MB) </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="jatsParser__center-article-block"> <div class="jatsParser__article-fulltext" id="jatsParserFullText"> <h2 class="article-section-title jatsParser__abstract">Abstract</h2> <p><em>Sericobracon</em> Shaw is a small doryctine genus which was erected based on two species from Trinidad and the U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Croix) in the Caribbean Sea (<em>S. arimaensis </em>Shaw and <em>S. evansi</em> Shaw). Its type species, <em>S. arimaensis</em>, was reported as endoparasitoid of an Embioptera species, which is a unique biology for known Braconidae. Here we describe three new species of <em>Sericobracon</em> from Costa Rica: <em>S. paulmarshi </em>Zaldívar-Riverón & Shaw, <em>S. puravida </em>Zaldívar-Riverón & Shaw, and <em>S. zunigai</em> Zaldívar-Riverón & Shaw. The former species is characterized with DNA barcoding, providing the first such molecular data for any species in this genus. We also investigated the phylogenetic affinity of the genus within the subfamily Doryctinae based on nuclear UCE data. <em>Sericobracon</em> was recovered within the main Neotropical doryctine clade closely related to <em>Bolivar</em> Zaldívar-Riverón & Rodríguez-Jiménez and <em>Parallorhogas</em> Marsh. We discuss the higher taxonomic classification of <em>Sericobracon</em> and the latter two genera within the Doryctinae based on these relationships recovered and their shared morphological features. A key to species and digital photographs of the five described species of <em>Sericobracon</em> are provided.</p> <p> </p> <h2 class="article-section-title jatsParser__references">References</h2> <ol class="jatsParser__references-list"> <li>Bankevich, A., Nurk, S., Antipov, D., Gurevich, A.A., Dvorkin, M., Kulikov, A.S., Lesin, V.M., Nikolenko, S.I., Pham, S., Prjibelski, A.D., Pyshkin, A.V., Sirotkin, A.V., Vyahhi, N., Tesler, G., Alekseyev, M.A. & Pevzner, P.A. (2012) SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing. Journal of Computational Biology, 19, 455–477. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2012.0021">https://doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2012.0021</a> </li> <li>Belokobylskij, S.A. (1992) On the classification and phylogeny of the braconid wasps of subfamilies Doryctinae and Exothecinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Part I. On the classification, 1. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 71, 900–928. 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