New species from Finland

Yeah!

Dr Veli Vikberg just sent me 3 specimens of a completely new species of Meteorus. It's totally black and the whole surface is rugose - cool and interesting since no specimen so far has been so black. It was hatched from a butterfly that is very rare in Sweden and only found in Abisko. Maybe this butterfly occurs more frequently in Finland?

Specimen from northern parts seem to be more black than others...

Anyway I'm going to sequence this specimen, see where the DNA fits in my tree of already sequenced Meteorus species (about 40 species), and then maybe the data can be included in Dr Vikeberg and Dr Belokobylskijs paper describing this specimen. Hopefully the lab work will be completed on tuesday! I extracted the DNA yesterday (Friday), monday morning I'm going to sequence them. Depending on how fast the machenes run (PCR and Gel electrophoresis) and the quality of the extracts I'll hopefully be ready for sequencing on Tuesday. But we'll se how that goes.

I'm attending a course in Molecular systematics also and that takes a lot of my time.

Then upon all that I'm struggling with my Introductionary paper... Nights and weekends are booked for writing that paper.

Tally-ho, tally-ho....