Dirhinus anthracia Walker, 1846

Falahatpisheh, Ali, Fallahzadeh, Majid, Dousti, Abu Fazel & Delvare, Gérard, 2018, Review of Iranian Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with nomenclatural notes, Zootaxa 4394 (2), pp. 251-269 : 257

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.2.8
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FD24750B-FF38-41B8-834F-E191E91C6E59
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5977008
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/986F87A6-FFE8-0516-FF74-FAEDFCF7F946
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Dirhinus anthracia Walker, 1846
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Dirhinus anthracia Walker, 1846 View in CoL

Material examined. IRAN: Fars, Larestan , loc. 3, 26.vii.2112, (1 ♀) (in CIRAD: GDEL0357 ); same data , 09.iv.2013 (5 ♂) (in JIAU).

Distribution. The species is widely distributed in the Old World tropics, reaching the Southern Palaearctic region on the border of its distribution. This is a new record for Iran.

Hosts. Dirhinus anthracia was reared from a wide range of hosts, such as Tephritidae and synanthropic flies ( Calliphoridae , Sarcophagidae , Muscidae ) and it may also be a hyperparasitoid of Lepidoptera ( Pyralidae , Zygaenidae , Bombycidae and Noctuidae ) and even Orthoptera (Acrididae) through Tachinidae . Five other Dirhinus species have already been recorded from Iran ( Table 1).