First report of Dicopuslongipes (Subba Rao) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India with new distribution data on some species
Author
Rameshkumar, A.
Author
Poorani, J.
Author
Anjana, M.
text
Biodiversity Data Journal
2015
3
4692
4692
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4692
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.3.e4692
1314-2828--4692
Dicopus longipes (Subba Rao)
Materials
Type status:
Other material
. Occurrence: recordedBy:
A Rameshkumar
; individualCount:
1
; sex:
Female
; lifeStage:
Adult
; Location: continent: Asia; country:
India
; countryCode: IND; stateProvince: Kerala; municipality: Palakkad; locality:
RARS campus
; Identification: identificationID: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol:
Yellow pan trap
; eventDate:
2014-01-25
; habitat: Paddy field; Record Level: institutionID: ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore; institutionCode:
ICAR-NBAIR
Diagnosis
Dicopus longipes
(Fig. 6) differs from
D. noyesi
Manickavasagam by the following features: antennal scape uniformly slender (distinctly bulging subapically in
D. noyesi
), F1 almost as long as F2 (distinctly shorter in
D. noyesi
), F6 and F7 slightly bottle shaped, the apex of each segment shorter and wider (F5 to F7 bottle-neck shaped, the apex of each segment distinctly long and narrow in D. noyesi).
Distribution
Malaysia (
Subba Rao 1984
); India (Kerala).
Pricop and Andriescu (2011)
have mentioned that
D. longipes
is known from India, but it appears to be incorrect. After
Subba Rao (1984)
described it from Malaysia-Sabah under
Kubja
, the only subsequent reference to this species was by
Huber (2009)
when he synonymised
Kubja
with
Dicopus
.