Dirrhope Foerster, 1851

Zheng, Beibei, Xian, Zeqiu, Liu, Zhen & Polaszek, Andrew, 2025, Afrotropical Dirrhopinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with description of three new species, ZooKeys 1259, pp. 381-392 : 381-392

Genus Dirrhope Foerster

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.

Figures

Figure 1. Dirrhope albobasalis Liu & Polaszek, sp. nov., male. a. Habitus, lateral aspect; b. Head, dorsal aspect; c. Head, anterior aspect; d. Antenna; e. Propodeum; f. Head, mesosoma and metasoma, lateral aspect; g. Wings; h. Mesosoma, dorsal aspect; i. Metasoma, dorsal aspect.

Figure 2. Dirrhope nixoni Liu & Polaszek, sp. nov., female. a. Habitus, lateral aspect; b. Head dorsal aspect; c. Head, anterior aspect; d. Antenna; e. Mesosoma, dorsal aspect; f. Mesosoma, lateral aspect; g. Wings; h. Scutellum; i. Propodeum; j. Ovipositor sheath; k. Metasoma, dorsal aspect.

Figure 3. Dirrhope ocellimacula Liu & Polaszek, sp. nov., female. a. Habitus, lateral aspect; b. Antenna; c. Head, anterior aspect; d. Mesosoma, lateral aspect; e. Head, dorsal aspect; f. Mesosoma, dorsal aspect; g. Propodeum; h. Wings; i. Metasoma, dorsal aspect; j. Ovipositor sheath.