Dicopus longipes (Subba Rao)

Rameshkumar, A., Poorani, J. & Anjana, M., 2015, First report of Dicopuslongipes (Subba Rao) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from India with new distribution data on some species, Biodiversity Data Journal 3, pp. 4692-4692 : 4692

Dicopus longipes (Subba Rao)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A Rameshkumar; individualCount: 1; sex: Female; lifeStage: Adult; Location: continent: Asia; country: India; countryCode: IND; stateProvince: Kerala; municipality: Palakkad; locality: RARS campus ; Identification: identificationID: A Rameshkumar; Event: samplingProtocol: Yellow pan trap; eventDate: 2014-01-25; habitat: Paddy field; Record Level: institutionID: ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bangalore; institutionCode: ICAR-NBAIR

Diagnosis

Dicopus longipes (Fig. 6) differs from D. noyesi Manickavasagam by the following features: antennal scape uniformly slender (distinctly bulging subapically in D. noyesi ), F1 almost as long as F2 (distinctly shorter in D. noyesi ), F6 and F7 slightly bottle shaped, the apex of each segment shorter and wider (F5 to F7 bottle-neck shaped, the apex of each segment distinctly long and narrow in D. noyesi).

Distribution

Malaysia ( Subba Rao 1984); India (Kerala). Pricop and Andriescu (2011) have mentioned that D. longipes is known from India, but it appears to be incorrect. After Subba Rao (1984) described it from Malaysia-Sabah under Kubja , the only subsequent reference to this species was by Huber (2009) when he synonymised Kubja with Dicopus .