A new doryctine wasp, Spathius lubomiri 275 A new highly aberrant doryctine wasp, Spathius lubomiri sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae), from Lord Howe Island Andrew D. Austin † , John T. Jennings ‡ Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Te University of Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia † urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:DE71F924-750D-490D-84A7-F5960066F7CC ‡ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:55C216C3-F90E-4670-81FD-93C6F36B9A37 Corresponding author: Andrew Austin (andy.austin@adelaide.edu.au) Academic editor: Norman Johnson  |  Received 9 March 2009  |  Accepted 29 May 2009  |  Published 14 September 2009 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:799EB812-36C3-4326-9C02-0AF077776471 Citation: Austin AD, Jennings JT (2009) A new highly aberrant doryctine wasp, Spathius lubomiri sp. n. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Doryctinae), from Lord Howe Island. In: Johnson N (Ed) Advances in the systematics of Hymenoptera. Festschrift in honour of Lubomír Masner. ZooKeys 20: 275–284. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.20.120 Abstract Here we describe the doryctine wasp Spathius lubomiri sp. n., a highly aberrant member of the genus from Lord Howe Island, which is characterised, among other features, by having the wings reduced to sclerotised rod-like structures, and the dorsal body covered with long bristle-like setae. We also briefy discuss the composition of the hymenopteran fauna and prevalence of reduced wing taxa for the island, and provide a personal account in celebration of Lubo Masner’s 75 th birthday. Keywords Spathius, Doryctinae, Braconidae, wing reduction, brachypterous, micropterous, apterous, Lord Howe Island Introduction Lord Howe Island is located approximately 770 km east of the central New South Wales coast and 1,350 km north-west of New Zealand on the submerged Lord Howe Rise (31°33'20''S, 159°05'20''E) (Jennings and Austin 2009). Te island is an eroded ZooKeys 20: 275–284 (2009) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.20.120 www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys Copyright A.D. Austin & J.T. Jennings. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A peer-reviewed open-access journal RESEARCH ARTICLE