Dicopomorpha Ogloblin 1955
Creators: name: Athithya, Ayyavu
name: Manickavasagam, Sagadai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Mymaridae
Dicopomorpha

description: Dicopomorpha Ogloblin, 1955
Dicopomorpha Ogloblin, 1955: 387.
Type species: Dicopomorpha macrocephala Ogloblin, by original designation.
Chromodicopus Ogloblin, 1955: 390. Type species: Chromodicopus pulchricornis Ogloblin, by original designation. Synonymy by Yoshimoto, 1990: 27.
Dicopulus Ogloblin, 1955: 377. Type species: Dicopulus stramineus Ogloblin, by original designation. Synonymy by Yoshimoto, 1990: 27.
Diagnosis. FEMALE. Funicle 7-segmented (e.g. Fig. 9) or rarely 6-segmented (e.g. Fig. 3), but clava entire; mandibles bidentate and when closed crossing over each other medially; fore wing relatively narrow, with posterior margin slightly curved towards apex but relatively straight medially (e.g. Figs 1, 6); metasoma broadly sessile; tarsi 5-segmented (Lin et al. 2007).
Key to Indian species of Dicopomorpha (females), modified from Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam (2016)
1 Mesosoma with at least apical 3/4 white or pale (Figs 1, 7b)................................................... 2
- Mesosoma entirely brown (Fig. 17)....................................................................... 5
2(1) Antenna with funicle 7-segmented (Fig. 9), with Fl 2 the shortest segment (Fig. 9)................................... 3
- Antenna with funicle 6-segmented (Fig. 3), with Fl 1 the shortest segment (Fig. 3)................................... 4
3(2) Clava white (Fig. 9); fore wing 16.3× as long as wide (Fig. 11).................... D. manickavasagami Athithya sp. n.
- Clava brown (Fig. 14); fore wing 13.3× as long as wide (Fig. 16)....... D. mohani Manickavasagam and Athithya sp. n.
4(2) Funicle with all segments much longer than wide, with Fl 1-4 at least 3.5× as long as wide; scape about 6× as long as wide; clava with 2 mps (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 3); ovipositor 0.7× as long as mesotibia................................................................................ D. albithorax Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam
- Funicle with Fl 1 quadrate and remaining segments all less than twice as long as wide (Fig. 3); scape about 5× as long as wide; clava with 3 mps; ovipositor as long as mesotibia (Fig. 5).............. D. lathae Manickavasagam and Athithya sp. n.
5(1) Funicle 6-segmented (Fig. 18a).......................................... D. koreana Triapitsyn and Berezovskiy
- Funicle 7-segmented (Subba Rao 1989, fig. 102)............................................................ 6
6(5) Fl 2 not ring like, as long as other segments (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 9). D. funiculata Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam. ....................................................................................
- Fl 2 ring like, much shorter than other segments (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 22)..................... 7
7(6) Scape with two distinct, transverse white bands; pedicel white (Huber 2009, figs 1, 5)................... D. zebra Huber
- Scape without white bands; pedicel brown (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 16)......................... 8
8(7) Scape 5× as long as wide (Subba Rao 1989, fig. 102); hind wing about 18× as long as wide (Subba Rao 1989, fig. 104)...................................................................................... D. indica (Subba Rao)
- Scape more than 7× as long as wide; hind wing more than 20× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, figs 22, 24).............................................................................................. 9
9(8) Ovipositor 1.2× as long as mesotibia (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 19); scape about 8× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 16); fore wing about 11× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 17); hind wing 21× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 18).................................................................................... D. minuta Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam
- Ovipositor 0.7× as long as mesotibia (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 25); scape about 9× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 22); fore wing 10× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 23); hind wing 24× as long as wide (Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam 2016, fig. 24)….................................................................................... D. longiscapa Rameshkumar & Manickavasagam
description: Published as part of Athithya, Ayyavu & Manickavasagam, Sagadai, 2023, Descriptions of three new species of Dicopomorpha Ogloblin (Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) from India, with one new country record and a revised key to Indian species, pp. 377-389 in Zootaxa 5284 (2) on page 378, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/7923496