AnimaliaHymenopteraPteromalidaeJiaoTian-yangYaoQin-yingXiaoHuiReview of Dibrachys Förster from China (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae)Zookeys1422017201765612314910.3897/zookeys.656.11373 Dibrachys hians Bouček, 1965, new record to ChinaFigs 1–4 Dibrachys (Allodibrachys) hiansBouček, 1965: 28.Diagnosis.

Body length 1.6-2.0 mm (Figs 1, 2). Head in frontal view (Fig. 3) 1.32 × as wide as high; antennal scrobe shallow, extending upwards and not reaching anterior ocellus; antennal insertion placed on lower ocular line; clypeus with longitudinal striation; lower margin of clypeus not protruded, emarginate in middle, and without tooth; gena almost straight, lower angle of gena protruding beyond clypeal margin. Antenna (Fig. 4) with scape shorter than eye height (0.79×), not reaching anterior ocellus; length of pedicel and flagellum combined less than head width (0.67×); anelli transverse; each funicular segment subquarate; clava slightly clavate. Head in dorsal view with width 2× length; eye length 2× temple length; POLOOL. Mesosoma 1.37× as long as broad, mid lobe of mesoscutum with regular sculpture. Propodeum with complete median carina and incomplete plica. Fore wing with marginal vein 1.8× as long as postmarginal vein; postmarginal vein as long as stigmal vein. Gaster 1.25× as long as broad, slightly broader than thorax width.

1–4 Dibrachys hians Bouček, 1965. 1 Body in dorsal view 2 Body in lateral view 3 Head in frontal view 4 Head in lateral view 5–9 Dibrachys kojimae (Ishii, 1916) 5 Body in dorsal view 6 Head in frontal view 7 Head in dorsal view 8 Propodeum 9 Body in lateral view.

Material examined.

China: 3♀, Heilongjiang: Yichun, 13.VII.1962, ex. Tachinidae sp. on Ptycholomoides aeriferanus Herrich-Schaffer, leg. Ding-Xi Liao; 1♂, 1♀, Heilongjiang: Dailing, 29.VI.1962, ex. Tachinidae sp. on Ptycholomoides aeriferanus Herrich-Schaffer; 1♀, Jilin: Dunhua, 25.VI.1990; 1♂, 2♀, Beijing: Yanqing, 19.VII.1982, ex. Curculionidae sp. on elm, leg. Ding-Xi Liao.

Hosts.

Trematerra (1988) reported Pyralis farinalis L (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). as a host and here we record Curculionidae sp. on elm, Tachinidae sp. on Ptycholomoides aeriferanus Herrich-Schaffer (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), and Tachinidae sp. on Laspeyresia grunertiana (Ratzeburg) (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea).

Distribution.

China (Heilongjiang, Jilin, Beijing); Palearctic and Nearctic regions.

TrematerraP (1988) Arthropod antagonists of Pyralis farinalis (L.) (Lep., Pyralidae) and visitors of its larva shelters. Journal of Applied Entomology 105: 525528. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0418.1988.tb00220.x