Key to Rhopalophion species

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Ophioninae)

(after Gauld & Mitchell, 1978)

1. Ocelli large, separated from eyes by less than 0.2 times their maximum diameter (Fig. a); 1m-cu between Cu1 and ramellus curved (Fig. b); African mainland ... Rhopalophion discinervus (Morley)

- Ocelli small, separated from eyes by more than 0.2 times their maximum diameter (Fig. A); 1m-cu between CuI and ramellus straight (Fig. B); Madagascan species ... 2

2. Ramellus 1.1 times as long as 1m-cu between ramellus and Cu1; AI = 1.00 (Fig. a); face with fine, rather scattered puncturation (Fig. b) ... Rhopalophion divergens Delobel

Ramellus about 0.6 times as long as 1m-cu between ramellus and Cu1; AI = 1.50 (Fig. A); face with coarse dense puncturation (Fig. B) ... Rhopalophion parallelus Delobel

References

Gauld, I.D. 1979. An analysis of the classification of the Ophion genus group (Ichneumonidae). Systematic Entomology 5(1980): 59-82

Gauld, I.D. & Mitchell, P.A. 1978. The taxonomy, distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Slough, England, 287 pp.

Rousse, P. & van Noort, S. 2014. Afrotropical Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): an update of Gauld & Mitchell's revision, including two new species and an interactive matrix identification key. ZooKeys 456: 59–73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.456.8140

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Key to Rhopalophion species

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