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Dirrhope Foerster 1851

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Zoology Key Laboratory of Hunan Higher Education, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China
  • 2. Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Health Aquaculture and Product Processing in Dongting Lake Area, Hunan University of Arts and Science, Changde 415000, China

Description

Genus

DirrhopeFoerster

Dirrhope Foerster, 1851: 39. Type species: Dirrhope rufa Foerster.

Dirrhope Foerster: Muesebeck 1935: 173; Telenga 1955: 14; Tobias 1986: 459; Capek 1970: 870; Shenefelt 1973: 675; Marsh 1979: 256; Belokobylskij 1998: 547; Wu et al. 2000: 203; Ranjith et al. 2021: 251.

Diagnosis.

Head and mesosoma rather robust, granulate or densely reticulate-rugose, metasoma comparatively weak; head transverse; occipital carina absent or incomplete; eye glabrous; frons concave laterally, distinctly protruding medially, with one longitudinal ridge-like carina extending to area between antennal sockets, sometimes to middle of face; antenna with 18–24 antennomeres, first flagellomere slightly longer than second; anterior tentorial pits relatively large; clypeus convex, protruding in lateral view; clypeal suture deep; malar suture present; maxillary palp with 6 palpomeres, third palpomere distinctly swollen; labial palp with 4 palpomeres; propleural lobe present; notauli usually incomplete, distinct basally; prepectal carina present; precoxal sulcus present but shallow; propodeum distinctly areolate and carinate; fore wing vein 1 - R 1 present; vein r-m of fore wing absent; vein 2-1 A largely obsolescent; second submarginal and subdiscal cells open; veins 1 - M and 1 - SR + M arising from parastigma; vein m-cu antefurcal; vein cu-a distinctly postfurcal; and first tergite relatively slender, parallel-sided, spiracles situated behind middle of first tergite (see Ranjith et al. 2021).

Key to species of Dirrhope from the Afrotropical region

Note. Females of D. albobasalis Liu & Polaszek, sp. nov. are unknown for this study.

Notes

Published as part of Zheng, Beibei, Xian, Zeqiu, Liu, Zhen & Polaszek, Andrew, 2025, Afrotropical Dirrhopinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with description of three new species, pp. 381-392 in ZooKeys 1259 on pages 381-392, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1259.172473

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B50BFEE7EEC2561F927A29E766EDA106

Cites
Publication: 10.4039/Ent102846-7 (DOI)
Publication: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.6 (DOI)
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Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.1259.172473 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/A5488989132850C292E82974D4A0D501 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/E2D8DA2C-F205-4DC9-89AB-C892A22B5BA9 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/B50BFEE7EEC2561F927A29E766EDA106 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/305925422 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/313066/taxon/B50BFEE7EEC2561F927A29E766EDA106.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Foerster
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Braconidae
Genus
Dirrhope
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Dirrhope Foerster, 1851 sec. Zheng, Xian, Liu & Polaszek, 2025

References

  • Muesebeck CFW (1935) On two little known genera of Braconidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 37: 173–177.
  • Telenga NA (1955) Fauna of the U. S. S. R. Hymenoptera. Braconidae: Microgastrinae and Agathidinae. Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seruya Geofraficheskaya 5: 4. [In Russian]
  • Tobias VI (1986) Subfam. Miracinae. In: Medvedev GS (Ed.) Key to Insects of the European Part of the USSR. Hymenoptera. Vol. III. Pt. 4. Nauka, Leningrad, 459 [In Russian].
  • Capek M (1970) A new classification of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera) based on the cephalic structure of the final instar larvae and biological evidence. Canadian Entomologist 102 (7): 846–875. https://doi.org/10.4039/Ent102846-7
  • Shenefelt RD (1973) Braconidae 5, Microgastrinae and Ichneutinae. In: van der Vecht J, Shenefelt RD (Eds) Hymenopterorum Catalogus, Part 9, 669–812.
  • Marsh PM (1979) Family Braconidae. In: Krombein KV, Hurd PD, Smith DR, Burks BD (Eds) Catalog of the Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C., 144–313.
  • Belokobylskij SA (1998) Subfam. Dirrhopinae. In: Lehr PA (Ed.) Key to the Insects of the Russian Far East. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Vol. IV. Pt. 3. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok, 547–548. [in Russian]
  • Wu ZS, Chen JH, Huang JC (2000) A new species of the genus Dirrhope (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from China. Entomologia Sinica 7 (3): 203–206.
  • Ranjith AP, Samartsev KG, Nasser M (2021) Discovery of the braconid subfamily Dirrhopinae van Achterberg (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Indian subcontinent with the description of a new species from south India. Zootaxa 4908 (2): 251–262. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.6