Revision of the Western Palaearctic Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) Klopfstein, Seraina Zootaxa 2014 2014-05-22 3801 1 1 143 36J88 Diller 1986 Diller 1986 [151,513,955,981] Insecta Ichneumonidae Diplazon Animalia Hymenoptera 44 45 Arthropoda species schachti   Diagnosis.Fore wing length 3.9–4.7 mm. Antenna with 15–17 flagellomeres. Face with punctures clearly distinct from the background sculpture. Mesopleuron smooth and polished and strongly punctate over entire surface. Propodeum with a full set of carinae enclosing basal, lateral and petiolar areas. Tergite 1 0.85 times as long as wide in females, 1.0–1.15 times in males, tergite 2 0.55 infemales, 0.6–0.7 inmales; tergites 2 and 3 with large, distinct punctures on a smooth and polished background, on tergite 2 more rugose, but punctures always with distinct margins. Transverse impressions deep on tergites 1 to 4. Metasoma dorsoventrally depressed.  Colouration of females.Antenna dark brown, yellow below on scape and pedicel. Head and mesosoma black, face entirely yellow, yellow or ivory on clypeus and mouthparts, hind corner of pronotum, tegula, subtegular ridge, large shoulder mark, often two short parallel lines on mesoscutum, small spots on mesosternum in front of epicnemial carina, upper mesepimeron, entire scutellum. Legs orange or yellow, fore and mid coxae mostly yellow with a black base, hind coxa black, trochanters all with a black mark; femora orange; hind tibia white with a black apex, hind tarsus with first and second tarsomeres white with a dark apex, remainder dark. Metasoma black with broad yellow apical bands on tergites 1 to 4.  Colouration of males.As in females but with antenna yellow ventrally and yellow colouration more extended on mesopleuron in front of epicnemical carina. Fore coxa entirely yellow, hind coxa with a yellow apex, trochanters entirely yellow; hind tarsus often also with apical tarsomeres white basally.   Material examined.  Holotypeof  Diplazon schachtiDiller: Turkey, Pr. Hakkari, Suvari Halil-PassSE Beytisebap,  2300m, leg. W. Schacht,  2.VIII.1982. 1♂, at ZSM. New for  Iran: Yazd, Sanij, leg. Abbas Mohammadi-Khoramabadi, 14.V.2012. 2♂, 1♀, in the private collection of Abbas Mohammadi-Khoramabadi.  Turkey(1), Iran(3).   Distribution.Palaearctic.  Notes.Only the male holotypeof this species from Turkeyhas previously been reported, but several males and one female have recently been reared from  Scaeva albomaculata(Macquart)on  Euphorbia heteradena. 3714223438 1982-08-02 ZSM W. Schacht Turkey 2300 Suvari Halil-Pass Pr. Hakkari 44 45 1 holotype 3714223448 44 45