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Diglyphus chabrias Walker

Description

Diglyphus chabrias (Walker)

Figs 21, 22, 29, 34, 54, 55, 72, 78

Cirrospilus chabrias Walker, 1838:451, lectotype male in BMNH (type no. 5.2589), examined.

Diglyphus chabrias; Walker, 1844: 407 –410. Asecodes chabrias; Dalla Torre, 1898: 46.

Diagnosis. Scape completely dark (Figs 54, 55); legs (Fig. 34): femora dark and metallic with apical ¼ –¼ white; fore tibia with anterior surface white and posterior surface dark and metallic or dark brown, mid and hind tibiae dark and metallic with apical ¼ –¼ white; fore wing speculum with a few scattered setae (Fig. 72); male with antennal flagellomeres densely setose with short hairs (Fig. 55); male gaster completely dark and metallic (Fig. 22).

Material. Denmark: 1♀ 1♂ (BMNH, MZLU). France: 6♀ 2♂ (BMNH). Greece (Crete): 5♀ (BMNH). Hungary: 1♂ (BMNH). Italy: 2♀ (BMNH). Norway: 1♀ (BMNH). Portugal (Madeira): 1♀ 1♂ (BMNH). Russia: 1♀ 3♂ (ZISP). Spain (Canary Islands): 4♂ (BMNH). Sweden: 44♀ 24♂ (BMNH, MZLU). United Kingdom: 58♀ 55♂ (BMNH).

The specimens from Sweden, identified as D. chabrias in Hansson (1987), were misidentified, instead they are D. begini.

Distribution. Bulgaria (Boyadzhiev 1997), Czech Republic (Kalina 1989), Denmark *, France *, Germany (Bouček & Askew 1968), Greece *, Hungary (Bouček & Askew 1968), Iran (Yefremova et al. 2007), Italy *, Netherlands (Gijswijt 2003), Norway (Bouček & Askew 1968), Portugal (Madeira) (Koponen & Askew 2002), Russia (Yefremova 2002), Slovakia (Kalina 1989), Spain (Canary Islands) (Koponen & Askew 2002), Sweden (Bouček & Askew 1968), Turkey (Yefremova et al. 2011), United Kingdom (Walker 1838).

Notes

Published as part of Hansson, Christer & Navone, Paolo, 2017, Review of the European species of Diglyphus Walker (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) including the description of a new species, pp. 197-229 in Zootaxa 4269 (2) on pages 201-202, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/582000

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , BMNH, MZLU , ZISP
Family
Eulophidae
Genus
Diglyphus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Species
chabrias
Taxon rank
species

References

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  • Hansson, C. (1987) New records of Swedish Eulophidae and Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with data on host species. Entomologisk Tidskrift, 108 (4), 167 - 173.
  • Boyadzhiev, P. S. (1997) Species of family Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) known to the fauna of Bulgaria till 1996. Plovdivski Universitet " Paisij Khilendarski " Nauchni Trudove Biologiya Animalia, 33 (6), 31 - 39.
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