Diglyphus begini (Ashmead)

Figs 19, 20, 33, 52, 53, 78

Diaulus begini Ashmead, 1904: 356, female holotype in USNM, not seen. Solenotus begini; Hills & Taylor, 1951: 760 –762.

Diglyphus begini; Peck, 1963: 103.

Diagnosis. Scape dark (Figs 52, 53); legs (Fig. 33): femora dark with apical ¼–⅓ yellowish-white; fore tibia yellowish-white, sometimes with posterior surface infuscate, mid and hind tibiae yellowish-white with a dark ring basally—this ring can occasionally be very weak and is missing in a few specimens; fore wing speculum bare or with a few scattered setae (as in Fig. 72); male gaster completely dark (Fig. 20).

Material. Croatia: 1♀ (BMNH) . Denmark: 1♀ (BMNH) . Norway: 21♀ & ♂ (BMNH) . Finland: 1♀ (BMNH) . France: 2♀ (BMNH) . Germany: 1♀ (BMNH) . Hungary: 3♀ (BMNH) . Russia: 2♀ (ZISP) . Sweden: 389♀ & ♂ (BMNH, MZLU) .

The specimens from Sweden, identified as D. chabrias in Hansson (1987), were misidentified, instead they are D. begini .

Distribution. Croatia *, Czech Republic (Kalina 1989), Denmark *, Finland *, France *, Germany *, Hungary *, Norway (Hågvar et al. 1994), Peoples' Republic of China (Zhu & Huang 2001), Russia *, Slovakia (Kalina 1989), Spain (Canary Islands) (Koponen & Askew 2002), Sweden *, Turkey (Gencer 2009), Yemen (Yefremova 2007). This species was originally described from Canada and it is one of the most abundant species in North America (Gordh & Hendrickson 1979). It is also recorded from South America (Brazil, Colombia, Peru) (Noyes 2016).