Twelve new species of Dipara Walker, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae, Diparinae) from Kenya, with a key to the Afrotropical species

By

Braun, Christoph
Peters, Ralph

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1067

Pages

101--157

Subjects

morphometry , parasitoid wasps , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1067.72395

 

Abstract

Based on 261 female specimens of the genus Dipara Walker, 1833 from leaf litter samples of the Kakamega Forest in Kenya, we describe the following twelve new species: Dipara andreabalzeraesp. nov., Dipara coronasp. nov., Dipara fastigatasp. nov., Dipara kakamegensissp. nov., Dipara luxsp. nov., Dipara nigroscutellatasp. nov., Dipara nyanisp. nov., Dipara reticulatasp. nov., Dipara rodneymullenisp. nov., Dipara sapphirussp. nov., Dipara tenebrasp. nov., and Dipara tigrinasp. nov. For Dipara albomaculata (Hedqvist, 1963) and Dipara nigrita Hedqvist, 1969, we give new distribution records. We examined the available type material of all described Dipara species from the Afrotropical mainland, i.e., Dipara albomaculata (Hedqvist, 1963), Dipara machadoi (Hedqvist, 1971), Dipara maculata (Hedqvist, 1963), Dipara nigrita Hedqvist, 1969, Dipara pallida (Hedqvist, 1969), Dipara punctulata (Hedqvist, 1969), Dipara saetosa (Delucchi, 1962), Dipara straminea (Hedqvist, 1969), Dipara striata (Hedqvist, 1969), and Dipara turneri Hedqvist, 1969. We provide figures, descriptions, and diagnoses of the newly described species and figures and diagnoses of the ten known species as well as an identification key to all species of the Afrotropical mainland.