Dolophron Förster, 1869

Han, Yuan-Yuan, Achterberg, Kees Van & Chen, Xue-Xin, 2022, Four rare genera of the subfamily Campopleginae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from China, with description of three new species, Zootaxa 5219 (3), pp. 247-264 : 248

Genus Dolophron Förster, 1869

Type species: Limneria pedella Holmgren, 1860 ; designation by Townes (1970).

Diagnosis. Front wing 3.5–4.5 mm; eye weakly indented opposite of antennal socket; clypeus moderately convex from lateral view, apical margin of clypeus blunt; mandible with upper tooth equal to slightly longer than lower tooth, with a lamella; posterior mesosternal carina complete; propodeum rather short; area superomedia usually separated from area petiolaris; hind tarsal segments without row of ventral setae medially; fore wing with areolet, receiving vein 2rs-m at its apical half; vein 1cu-a distad of vein M& RS by 0.3 of its length; hind wing CU&cu-a vein inclivous, receiving discoidella below its middle; first metasomal segment short and stout; glymma large and located at basal 0.3 of first metasomal segment; ovipositor straight or slightly upcurved, ca. 2.0× longer than apical depth of metasoma.

Key to species of Dolophron Förster (females)

1. Ovipositor with a nodus before apical notch ( Fig. 2D ); propodeal costula absent ( Fig. 2C )........... D. granulosa sp. nov.

- Ovipositor without a nodus before apical notch; propodeal costula present........................................ 2

2. Area superomedia as long as or longer than wide; costula connected with area superomedia in front of the middle; hind wing with vein CU&cu-a intercepted at lower 0.20–0.25; hind coxa predominantly black......... D. pedellum ( Holmgren, 1860)

- Area superomedia usually transverse, seldom as long as wide; costula connected with area superomedia in or behind the middle; hind wing with vein CU&cu-a intercepted at lower 0.33; hind coxa predominantly red.................................................................................................... D. nemorati Horstmann, 1978

Figures

FIGURE 2. Dolophron granulosa sp. nov., holotype, female. A fore wing B mesosoma, lateral view C propodeum D ovipositor E head, anterior view F head, dorsal view G mesoscutum, dorsal view H first metasomal segment, lateral view.