Dirhininae

 Dirhinus sp., photographed by D. Magdalena Sorger.

Belongs within: Chalcididae.

The Dirhininae are a group of chalcidid wasps with the frons angulately produced forwards; in Dirhinus, it is divided into a pair of edged horns. Dirhinus species are parasites in fly puparia, including those of a number of synanthropic species (Bouček 1988).

<==DirhininaeB88
    |--Aplorhinus [Aplorhinini]B88
    |    `--A. bakeriB88
    `--Dirhinus Dalman 1818 (see below for synonymy)B88
         |--*D. excavatusB88
         |--D. anthracia Walker 1846B88 (see below for synonymy)
         |--D. atricornis (Girault 1927) [=Pareniaca atricornis]B88
         |--D. caeruleaHB13
         |--D. emersoni (Girault 1927) [=Pareniaca emersoni]B88
         |--D. giffardiiHB13
         |--D. inflexusD07
         |--D. loriae (Masi 1947) [=Pareniaca loriae]B88
         |--D. variocelli Girault 1926 [=Dirrhinus (l. c.) variocelli]B88
         `--D. vultur (Girault 1915) *Eniacomorpha vultur; incl. Pareniaca boussingaulti Girault 1915]B88

Dirhinus Dalman 1818 [incl. Dirhinoides Masi 1947, Dirrhinoidea Girault 1912, Eniaca Kirby 1883, Eniacella Girault 1913, Eniacomorpha Girault 1915, Pareniaca Crawford 1913; Dirhinini]B88

Dirhinus anthracia Walker 1846B88 [incl. Eniacella bicornuticeps Girault 1915B88, *E. rufricornis Girault 1913B88, Dirrhinus rufricornisGM79, Dirhinus sarcophagae Froggatt 1919B88]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[D07] Desjardins, C. A. 2007. Phylogenetics and classification of the world genera of Diparinae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Zootaxa 1647: 1–88.

[GM79] Gordh, G., A. S. Menke, E. C. Dahms & J. C. Hall. 1979. The privately printed papers of A. A. Girault. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 28: 1–400.

[HB13] Heraty, J. M., R. A. Burks, A. Cruaud, G. A. P. Gibson, J. Liljeblad, J. Munro, J.-Y. Rasplus, G. Delvare, P. Janšta, A. Gumovsky, J. Huber, J. B. Woolley, L. Krogmann, S. Heydon, A. Polaszek, S. Schmidt, D. C. Darling, M. W. Gates, J. Mottern, E. Murray, A. D. Molin, S. Triapitsyn, H. Baur, J. D. Pinto, S. van Noort, J. George & M. Yoder. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). Cladistics 29: 466–542.

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