Dilyta Foerster , 1869

Noort, Simon van, Buffington, Matthew L. & Forshage, Mattias, 2015, Afrotropical Cynipoidea (Hymenoptera), ZooKeys 493, pp. 1-176 : 44-46

Taxon classification Animalia Hymenoptera Figitidae

Dilyta Foerster, 1869

Remarks.

Common. Revised for the region by Paretas-Martinez et al. (2009).

Diagnosis.

Mostly tiny and dark brown charipines. Separated from Apocharips by lacking lateral ridges on scutellum, having at most a small posterior ridge, and by usually having T2 discernable as a separate sclerite. May be confused with Alloxysta , but has an oval-rounded metasoma covered in the major part by a syntergite (no posterior tergites visible) and has the two apical articles of the female antenna immovable conjoined. Furthermore, Alloxysta are usually larger, paler, has more pubescence, and have a more smoothly convex mesoscutum; Dilyta have a characteristic anterior hump in lateral view.

Distribution.

Holarctic and Old World Tropics. Afrotropical records: Cameroon ( Lebel and Modesta 2007), Democratic Republic of Congo ( Benoit 1956e), Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa ( Paretas-Martinez et al. 2009), Madagascar ( Pujade-Villar and Ferrer-Suay 2012), Rwanda, Zimbabwe ( Ferrer-Suay et al. 2013), Central African Republic, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen (here).

Biology.

Hyperparasitoids attacking encyrtid wasps on psyllids ( Menke and Evenhuis 1991).

Species richness.

Dilyta africana (Benoit, 1956e) ( Alloxysta ) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)

Dilyta australafricana Paretas-Martínez & Pujade-Villar, 2009 (South Africa)

Dilyta camerounensis Lebel & Modeste, 2007 (Cameroon)

Dilyta ghanana Paretas-Martínez, Pujade-Villar & Melika, 2009 (Central African Republic, Ghana)

Dilyta kenyana Paretas-Martínez & Pujade-Villar, 2009 (Kenya)

Dilyta paretasmartinezi Pujade-Villar & Ferrer-Suay, 2012 (Madagascar)

Dilyta somaliana Paretas-Martínez, Pujade-Villar & Evenhuis, 2009 (Botswana, Somalia, South Africa)

Dilyta subclavata Förster, 1869 (Madagascar; a European species)