Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- medium sized species
- medium sized oval facial spots present
- postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow
- scutum red-brown with irregularly shaped lateral longitudinal pale fuscous to fuscous bands, mesopleural stripe narrow, slightly wider than notopleuron, lateral postsutural vittae present, medial postsutural vitta absent, scutellum yellow with a broad red-brown to fuscous basal band
- wing colourless or with a pale fulvous tint and a narrow fuscous costal band and broad fuscous anal streak, cells bc and c pale fulvous to fulvous with microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only, abdominal terga III and IV fuscous and tergum V fulvous except for broad oval lateral dark fuscous margins on terga III and IV and broad oval fuscous lateral margins on tergum V
- posterior lobe of male surstylus short; female with aculeus tip needle shaped (Drew 1989; pers. comm. Drew 2010).
Morphological – larvae
Not available.
Molecular
DNA barcoding
Diagnostic BOLD reference data available.
COI data
B. kraussi KRA001 Classic morphology Folmers COI
B. kraussi KRA002 Classic morphology Folmers COI
B. kraussi KRA003 Classic morphology Folmers COI
DDOSTs2 data
B. kraussi KRA002 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
B. kraussi KRA003 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
EIF3L data
B. kraussi KRA002 Classic specimen EIF3L
RPA2 data
B. kraussi KRA002 Classic morphology RPA2
B. kraussi KRA003 Classic morphology RPA2
POP4 data
B. kraussi KRA002 Classic morphology POP4
B. kraussi KRA001 Classic specimen POP4
B. kraussi KRA003 Classic specimen POP4
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: Data not available
HinfI: Data not available
HhaI: Data not available
Sau3AI: Data not available
SnaBI: Data not available
SspI: Data not available
Vspl: Data not available
PCR-RFLP Test 2
Data not available.