A new species of Diradops Townes from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Banchinae), a parasitoid of Hyphantria cunea (Drury) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae), with notes on Diradops mexicanus (Cresson)
D.R. Kasparyan & D.O. Pinson
Abstract. A new ichneumonid species, Diradops hyphantriae sp. n., is described. The new species is very common in Mexico and perhaps this species was considered erroneously as D. mexicanus (Cresson) in the recent revision of Banchinae of Costa Rica (Ugalde & Gauld, 2002). The senior author examined the types of all described Mexican and Nearctic species of the genus. Morphological differences between D. hyphantriae and D. mexicanus (the type) are discussed and illustrated. One specimen of the new species was reared from web nests of Hyphantria cunea collected on pecan (Carya illinoiensis).
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2007, 16(1): 39-42 ▪ Published in print 15 June 2007
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2007.16.1.39 ▪ Open full article 
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