Prosapha Foerster, 1863

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, Santa, Fernando, van Achterberg, Cornelis & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2025, Review of the genera and subgenera of the subtribe Aspilotina (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae), with a new illustrated key, ZooKeys 1229, pp. 133-200 : 133-200

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Subgenus Prosapha Foerster, 1863

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Prosapha Foerster, 1863: 263; Shenefelt 1974: 1018; Tobias 1986: 121.

Dinotrema (Prosapha) van Achterberg 1988: 88 (as synonym of Dinotrema); Tobias 2003 b: 810; Belokobylskij and Tobias 2007: 11; van Achterberg and Vikberg 2014: 3; Yu et al. 2016.

Type species.

Alysia speculum Haliday, 1838 , by original designation (Figs 16 View Figure 16 , 17 View Figure 17 ).

Material examined

( Dinotrema (Prosapha) speculum ): Austria: • ♂, Spitzzicken , Burgenland, 24. viii. 1959 (Fischer leg.) ( NHMW). Russia : • 8 ♂, Leningradskaya Province, Tolmachevo , 23. viii. 1960 (Tobias leg.) ( ZISP) ; • 2 ♂, Novgorod Province, 20 km NW of Pestovo , 6. vii. 1986 (Tobias leg.) ( ZISP) ; • ♀, ibid, 15. viii. 1990 ( ZISP) ; • ♀, ibid, 27. vii. 1999 ( ZISP) ; • ♀, ibid, 1. viii. 1999 ( ZISP) ; • ♀, ibid, 5. viii. 2001 ( ZISP) ; • ♀, Volgograd Province, 10 km S of Novokhopersk , 10. vii. 1977 (Tobias leg.) ( ZISP) ; • ♂, Krasnodar Territory, Sochi, Lazarevskoe , 30. v. 1988 (Tobias leg.) ( ZISP) ; • ♂, Chelyabinsk Province, Ilmenskiy Nature Reserve , 17. vii. 1958 (Tobias leg.) ( ZISP) .

Diagnosis.

This subgenus shares the main characters of Dinotrema sensu stricto but differs by having, in the fore wing, the maximum width of pterostigma wider than vein r (especially in males) and vein 2 - SR of fore wing always present.

Remarks.

This subgenus includes five Palaearctic species: D. (P.) comptum Tobias, 2003 , D. (P.) pachysemoides Tobias, 2003 , D. (P.) speculum (Haliday, 1838) , D. (P.) tobiasi (Fischer, 1994) and D. (P.) ussuricum Tobias, 2007 . The status of Prosapha has been variable for a long time. Foerster (1863) described this genus based on the distinctive large, cuneiform and heavily sclerotised pterostigma of the male. Van Achterberg (1988) and Tobias (2003 b) considered Prosapha species inside of Dinotrema based on their morphological similarity and because Prosapha females possess a narrower pterostigma weakly separated from the metacarp (1 - R 1). Prosapha species can be differentiated from Pseudoprosapha subgen. nov. by the presence of vein 2 - SR (which is absent in Pseudoprosapha ).

References

Tobias VI (2003 b) To the knowledge of the subgenus Prosapha stat. n. of the genus Dinotrema (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 82 (7): 810–815.

Belokobylskij SA, Tobias VI (2007) Fam. Braconidae. Subfam. Alysiinae. Group of genera closed to Aspilota. In: Lelej AS (Ed.) Key to the Insects of the Russian Far East. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Vol. IV, pt 5. Dal’nauka, Vladivostok, 9–133. [In Russian]

Foerster A (1863) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Braconiden. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 19: 225-288.

Foerster A (1863) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Braconiden. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 19: 225–288.

Shenefelt RD (1974) Pars II. Braconidae 7. Alysiinae. In van der Vecht, J. and Shenefelt R. D., Hymenopterorum Catalogus (nova editio). Dr. W. Junk, The Hague, 937–1113.

Tobias VI (1986) Subfamily Alysiinae. In: Medvedev GS (Ed.) Opredelitel’ nasekomykh Evropeyskoy chasti SSSR [Key to insects of the USSR European part], Vol. 3, Part 5, Nauka, Leningrad, 100–231. [In Russian] https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.46334

van Achterberg C (1988) The genera of the Aspilota - group and some descriptions of fungicolous Alysiini from the Netherlands (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae). Zoologische Verhandelingen Leiden 247: 1–88.

van Achterberg C, Vikberg V (2014) Dinotrema brevis spec. nov. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), a new brachypterous species from Finland. Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden 88 (1): 1–7.

Yu DS, van Achterberg C, Horstmann K (2016) Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015. Database on flash-drive. Ottawa, Ontario.

Figures

Figure 16. Dinotrema (Prosapha) speculum (Haliday, 1838) (A, C, E: female; B, D, F: male) A, B habitus, lateral view C, D antenna E, F fore and hind wings.

Figure 17. Dinotrema (Prosapha) speculum (Haliday, 1838) (female) A head and mesosoma, lateral view B mandible C head and mesonotum, dorsal view D propodeum E first metasomal tergite, dorsal view F legs, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view.