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Issue: Vol. 2780 No. 1: 1 Mar. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2780.1.3
Page range: 29–38
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 16

Revision of the Holarctic species of Dilyta Förster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae: Charipinae) with descriptions of four new species from the eastern Palaearctic

Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal. Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
Systematic Parasitoid Laboratory, Plant Protection and Soil Conservation Service of County Vas, Kelcz-Adelffy St. 6, 9730 Köszeg, Hungary
Universitat de València, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Departament de Zoologia. Campus de Burjassot-Paterna, Dr. Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal. Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028-Barcelona, Spain
Hymenoptera Figitidae Charipinae Dilyta new species

Abstract

The genus Dilyta, and the known species of this genus present in the Holarctic, D. subclavata Förster from Europe and D. rathmanae Menke and Evenhuis from USA, are redescribed. Four new species of Dilyta are described from the eastern Palaearctic region: D. aleevae sp. n. from Kazakhstan, D. japonica sp. n. from Japan, and D. longinqua sp. n. and D. sinica sp. n. from China. All six species have an ∩ -shaped carina on the apex of the scutellum; this character differentiates these species from the Afrotropical species, which instead have two small symmetrical and parallel carinae. A key to the species of Dilyta in the Holarctic is provided. Apocharips talitzkii (Belizin) is synonymyzed with D. subclavata.

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