Diagnosis
Morphological – adult
Features include:
- medium sized species
- facial spots present
- postpronotal lobes and notopleura yellow
- scutum pale red-brown with fuscous markings
- mesopleural stripe reaching almost to anterior npl. seta
- lateral postsutural vittae present
- medial postsutural vitta absent
- scutellum yellow
- wing with a narrow fuscous costal band and broad fuscous anal streak
- cells bc and c fuscous
- microtrichia covering cell c and most of cell bc
- abdominal terga III-V pale orange-brown with pale fuscous along anterior margin of tergum III and widening over lateral margins of that tergum, a medial longitudinal pale fuscous band on terga III to V
- posterior lobe of male surstylus short
- female with aculeus tip needle shaped (Drew 1989; pers. comm. Drew 2010).
Morphological – larvae
See White and Elson-Harris 1992 p. 179.
Molecular
DNA barcoding
BOLD reference data available, but cannot be distinguished from B. neohumeralis or B. tryoni.
RPA2 data
B. aquilonis AQL004 Classic morphology RPA2
B. aquilonis AQL006 Abdomen variation RPA2
B. aquilonis AQL007 Abdomen variation RPA2
DDOSTs2 data
B. aquilonis AQL004 Classic morphology DDOSTs2
B. aquilonis AQL007 Abdomen variation DDOSTs2
EIF3L data
B. aquilonis AQL004 Classic specimen EIF3L
B. aquilonis AQL007 Abdomen variation EIF3L
B. aquilonis AQL009 Scutum variation EIF3L
B. aquilonis AQL015 Classic specimen EIF3L
FCOI data
B. aquilonis AQL004 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL006 Abdomen variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL007 Abdomen variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL008 Scutum variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL009 Scutum variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL010 Colour variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL011 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL012 Abdomen variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL013 Abdomen variation FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL015 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL016 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL017 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL018 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL019 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL020 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL021 Classic specimen FCOI
B. aquilonis AQL022 Classic specimen FCOI
POP4 data
B. aquilonis AQL004 Classic morphology POP4
B. aquilonis AQL006 Abdomen variation POP4
B. aquilonis AQL007 Abdomen variation POP4
B. aquilonis AQL010 Classic specimen POP4
B. aquilonis AQL011 Classic specimen POP4
B. aquilonis AQL015 Abdomen variation POP4
B. aquilonis AQL017 Classic specimen POP4
B. aquilonis AQL022 Classic specimen POP4
PCR-RFLP Test 1
BsrI: 600, 200
HinfI: 770
HhaI: 650, 200
Sau3AI: 420
SnaBI: Does not cut
SspI: 570, 180
Vspl: Does not cut
Approximate ITS1 fragment length – gel: 850 bp.
PCR-RFLP Test 2
SspI produces a B. tryoni species complex diagnostic restriction pattern;
SspI: 1000, 550, 100 bp.
This species cannot be distinguished from B. neohumeralis or B. tryoni.
Other restriction patterns useful for diagnosis of the complex are listed in Restriction enzyme haplotype chart, with choice based on relative distinctiveness from other species potentially trapped; descriptions of the patterns are given in Diagnostic restriction patterns.
Cameron et al. 2010 found that there is no genetic evidence supporting the separation of B. aquilonis and B. tryoni as distinct species.