Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- a medium sized species
- face fulvous with a pair of medium sized circular to oval black spots
- postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow
- scutum black with large areas of red-brown centrally and anterocentrally
- lateral and medial postsutural vittae present
- yellow spot anterior to mesonotal suture in front of lateral postsutural vittae
- mesopleural stripe reaching midway between anterior margin of notopleuron and anterior npl. seta
- scutellum entirely yellow
- wing with a narrow dark fuscous costal band overlapping R2+3 and expanding into a distinct apical spot and broad dark fuscous anal streak
- cells bc and c colourless
- microtrichia in outer corner of cell c only
- abdominal terga III-V fulvous with a black ‘T’ pattern and anterolateral corners of terga IV and V with broad black markings; posterior lobe of male surstylus short
- female with apex of aculeus trilobed (Drew and Romig 2013).
Morphological – larvae
See White and Elson-Harris 1992 p. 273.
Molecular
DNA barcoding
BOLD reference data available, but not well resolved amongst a number of other species in BOLD.
Low divergence clades are apparent and when used in conjunction with other information about the specimen this may be sufficient to make a confident identification.
COI data
Z. tau TAU002 Leg variation Folmers COI
Z. tau TAU003 Scutum variation Folmers COI
Z. tau TAU005 Classic morphology Folmers COI
RPA2 data
Z. tau TAU002 Leg variation RPA2
Z. tau TAU003 Scutum variation RPA2
Z. tau TAU005 Classic morphology RPA2
DDOSTs2 data
Z. tau TAU002 Leg variation DDOSTs2
Z. tau TAU003 Scutum variation DDOSTs2
POP4 data
Z. tau TAU002 Leg variation POP4
Z. tau TAU003 Scutum variation POP4
Z. tau TAU005 Classic morphology POP4
EIF3L data
Z. tau TAU002 Leg variation EIF3L
Z. tau TAU005 Classic specimen EIF3L
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.