Dirhinus anthracia Walker, 1846

Gawas, Sandesh M. & Gupta, Ankita, 2024, Taxonomic studies on chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) of Goa, India, with an illustrated key to genera and species, Journal of Natural History 58 (9 - 12), pp. 342-381 : 361-362

Dirhinus anthracia Walker, 1846

( Figures 29, 30 )

Dirhinus aligarhensis Husain and Agarwal, 1981

Dirhinus anthracia Walker, 1846

Dirhinus frequens Masi, 1933

Dirhinus georgei Mani and Dubey, 1974

Dirhinus ignobilicornis Husain and Agarwal, 1981

Dirhinus intermedius Mani and Dubey, 1972

Dirhinus ruficornis Cameron, 1905

Dirhinus sarcophagae Froggatt, 1919

Dirhinus (Dirhinus) aligarhensis Husain and Agarwal, 1981 Dirhinus (Dirhinus) anthracia Walker, 1846

Dirhinus (Dirhinus) ignobilicornis Husain and Agarwal, 1981 Eniacella bicornuticeps Girault, 1915

Eniacella rufricornis Girault, 1913

Material examined

INDIA: Goa, Dharbandora, Mollem National Park , 11 March 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas ; 16 April 2019, 1 female, yellow pan trap, coll . Sandesh Gawas .

Description

Female, length of the body 4.2–4.8 mm.

Colour. Body black with following reddish brown: antennae, tegulae, fore and mid legs except for coxae, hind tarsi.

Head. Head with 2 projecting horns. Horns with distinct notch outside of apex. POL equal to OOL.

Mesosoma . Pronotum, mesoscutum and metanotum densely punctate. Scutellum with the median impunctate area. Fore wing with marginal and stigmal vein. Post-marginal vein absent.

Metasoma. T1 with basal longitudinal carinae reaching one-third of the length of metasoma.

Distribution

INDIA. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Odisha, Puducherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh ( Daniel and Ramaraju 2017a, 2017b; Gowriprakash et al. 2018; Basak et al. 2020).

Figures

Figure 25–30. Habitus: 25–26, Brachymeria jambolana; 27–28, Brachymeria megaspila; 29–30, Dirhinus anthracia.