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Driopteron

Driopteron folioides Hansson, propodeum female, arrow points at raised median part

Driopteron cristatum Hansson, forewing female

Driopteron folioides Hansson, paratype female

Driopteron cristatum Hansson, paratype female

Driopteron cristatum Hansson, head frontal, paratype female

Author, year, journal with original description

Hansson, C., 2004, Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:131-132

Type species

Driopteron cristatum Hansson (holotype female in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa)

Synonym names

None

Diagnosis

Clypeus delimited by a groove laterally and dorsally; midlobe of mesoscutum with one pair of setae; median propodeum raised and usually strongly reticulate; supracoxal flanges more or less enlarged and membranous; forewing with long admarginal setae, with a tuft of black setae at base of marginal vein, marginal vein distorted medially and/or with a tuft of black setae medially

Number of species

Six

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Distribution

Neotropical region: Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru

Biology

Reared from galls with gall-midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on various plants

Literature

Hansson, C. 2004. Eulophidae of Costa Rica, 2. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 75:1-536 (Driopteron is treated on pp. 131-139)