Scientific name

Dipara Walker

Taxonomic position

Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae

Diagnosis

Dipara females have distinct gastral petiole, with at least one pair of setae or bristles on the lateral margins; mesoscutum with two pairs of long bristles; scutellum with at most 2 pairs of bristles, frenum distinctly separated; propodeum with distinct nucha; antennae with anellus broader than long and clypeus without tooth.

Image

  Male - lateral view

Distribution

India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Little Andaman), Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakand.

Biology / Hosts

Not known except for an undescribed Indian species (under Parurios) reared from a curculionid beetle feeding on the roots of Cyperus (Bouček, 1988).

References

  • Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). C.A.B. International Wallingford, U.K. pp. 832.
  • Desjardins, C.A. 2007. Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa, 1647: 1-88.
  • Narendran, T.C., Mini. T.V. & Karmaly, K.A. 2000. A new species of Parurios Girault ( Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae: Diparinae) from Kerala (India). Bulletin of Pure and Applied Sciences, 19A (2): 137-140.
  • Narendran, T.C., Sabu K. Thomas & Sinu, P.A. 2006. A revision of Indian species of Parurios Girault with a new record of Papuopsia Boucek (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from India. Journal of biological science, 14: 17-23.
  • Noyes, J.S. 2014. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/chalcidoids.
  • Narendran, T.C. & Sureshan, P.M. (2001). Descriptions of three new species of Dipara Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from India. Zoos' print journal, 16A (4): 451-456.
  • Sureshan, P.M. 2013. A taxonomic revision of Oriental Dipara Walker (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) with descriptions of six new species from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 113(1):76-84.
  • Sureshan, P.M. & Narendran, T.C. 2005. A new species of Dipara Walker (Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae) from Sri Lanka and key to the species of Indian subcontinent. Records of Zoological Survey of India, 105(1-2): 105-109.
  • Sureshan, P.M., Raseena Farsana, V.K. and Nikhil, K. 2014. Description of four new species of Dipara Walker (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from India, with records of some species and a key to the Oriental species. Entomon 39(1): 43-62.
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