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Apterolelaps Ashmead, 1901 : 312. Type-species : A. nigriceps Ashmead, by monotypy and 



orginal designation. 

 Dipara Walker ; Ashmead, 1904 : 335. 

 Dipara Walker ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 366, 367. 



Hispanolelaps Mercet, 1927 : 60. Type-species : H. coxalis Mercet, by monotypy. 

 Dipara Walker ; Nikol'skaya, 1952 : 241-242. 

 Dipara Walker ; Boucek, 1954 : 53~54- 

 Trichoryphus [sic] Forster ; Delucchi, 1958a : 56-57. 



Afrolelaps Hedqvist, 1963 : 47. Type-species : A. maculata Hedqvist, by original designation. 

 Dipara Walker ; Peck et al., 1964 : 28. 



Only one species is known in Europe. The male is fully winged, the female micro- 

 pterous, whilst they differ considerably in other respects, so much so that until 

 recently they were placed in different subfamilies! 



Tricoryphus Forster and Hispanolelaps Mercet were recognized as synonyms of 

 Dipara Walker by Novitzky, whose discovery was published by Domenichini (1953 : 

 80, footnote). Later Delucchi (1958a : 56) synonymized Apterolelaps Ashmead 

 with Tricoryphus Forster. Afrolelaps Hedqvist is stated to differ from Dipara in 

 having 11-segmented antennae and notaulices which meet in the middle of the 

 mesoscutum ; but the antennae of Afrolelaps do not appear to me essentially 

 different from those of Dipara, whilst the relative convergence of the notauli is 

 hardly of generic value. 



Dipara petiolata Walker 

 (Text-figs. 39, 52) 



Dipara petiolata Walker, 1833 : 373, o*. 



Dipara cinetoides Walker, 1834 : 166, o*. 



Dipara petiolata Walker ; Haliday, 1841-1842 : vi, pi. J., fig. i (0 \ 



Tricoryphus fasciatus Thomson, 1876a : 210, $. 



Dipara petiolata Walker ; Thomson, 1878 : 177-178, <?. 



Hispanolelaps coxalis Mercet, 1927 : 62, <j>. 



Dipara petiolata Walker ; Boudek, 1954 : 53~54. c?. ? (fig- 2 )- 



Type material. Dipara petiolata Walker. One male, LECTOTYPE (possibly 

 it is holotype) : it bears a Waterhouse label " Dipara petiolata Walker " and a 

 modern label " Type <$ C. F." [C. Ferriere]. 



Dipara cinetoides Walker. One male (probably holotype) in G. T. Rudd coll., 

 Yorkshire Museum, York, bearing a label " 3 ". Placed in synonymy with petiolata 

 by Graham (1967a : 78) who recognized the type. 



Tricoryphus fasciatus Thomson. Coll. Thomson, 2 specimens, but one cannot be 

 a syntype as Thomson (1876a : 210) expressly stated that he had only one. I 

 identify as the holotype a female labelled " Tkv " [Torekov]. Placed in synonymy 

 with Dipara petiolata by Domenichini (1953 : 80 [footnote]) on the authority of 

 Novitzky. 



Hispanolelaps coxalis Mercet. Holotype $, Spain, La Pedriza de Manzares, 

 19.V.1922, in Instituto Espanol de Entomologia, Madrid (not seen). Placed in 

 synonymy with D. petiolata by Domenichini (1953 : 80, footnote) where the species 

 name is incorrectly spelt " casalis " . 



