Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- medium sized species
- medium sized black facial spots present
- postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow
- scutum black, mesopleural stripe reaching to postpronotal lobe, lateral postsutural vittae present, medial postsutural vitta absent, scutellum yellow
- wing with a broad fuscous costal band and anal streak, three transverse reddish-fuscous bands across wing with the basal one joining with the anal streak, cells bc and c fulvous with microtrichia in outer ½ of cell c only
- abdominal terga varying from orange-brown with a medial longitudinal black stripe on terga IV and V to orange-brown with a broad medial and two broad longitudinal black bands over terga III-V
- posterior lobe of male surstylus short
- female with apex of aculeus needle shaped (Drew 1989; Drew and Romig 2013).
Morphological – larvae
See White and Elson-Harris 1992 p. 238.
Molecular
DNA barcoding
Diagnostic BOLD reference data available.
COI data
B. umbrosa UMB002 Classic morphology Folmers COI
B. umbrosa UMB004 Abdomen variation Folmers COI
B. umbrosa UMB006 Scutum variation Folmers COI
B. umbrosa UMB007 Abdomen variation Folmers COI
B. umbrosa UMB008 Abdomen variation Folmers COI
B. umbrosa UMB010 Scutum variation Folmers COI
B. umbrosa UMB011 Scutum variation Folmers COI
RPA2 data
B. umbrosa UMB002 Classic morphology RPA2
B. umbrosa UMB006 Scutum variation RPA2
B. umbrosa UMB011 Scutum variation RPA2
DDOSTs2 data
B. umbrosa UMB002 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
B. umbrosa UMB006 Scutum variation DDOSTs2
B. umbrosa UMB011 Scutum variation DDOSTs2
POP4 data
B. umbrosa UMB002 Classic morphology POP4
B. umbrosa UMB003 Abdomen variation POP4
B. umbrosa UMB004 Abdomen variation POP4
B. umbrosa UMB005 Abdomen variation POP4
B. umbrosa UMB006 Scutum variation POP4
B. umbrosa UMB008 Abdomen variation POP4
B. umbrosa UMB011 Scutum variation POP4
EIF3L data
B. umbrosa UMB002 Classic specimen EIF3L
B. umbrosa UMB006 Scutum variation EIF3L
B. umbrosa UMB011 Scutum variation EIF3L
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: Does not cut
HinfI: 730
HhaI: 600, 190
Sau3AI: 380
SnaBI: Does not cut
SspI: 680
Vspl: Does not cut
Approximate ITS1 fragment length – gel: 780 bp.
PCR-RFLP Test 2
AluI, DraI and RsaI produce diagnostic patterns
See Restriction enzyme haplotype chart
and Diagnostic restriction patterns.