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Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran European Journal of Taxonomy 571: 1–25 ISSN 2118-9773 https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.571 www.europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu 2019 · Zargar M. et al. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0). Research article urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:89B1D35C-8162-403C-BF95-7853C62D27D1 Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran Mohammad ZARGAR 1, Ankita GUPTA 2, Ali Asghar TALEBI 3,* & Samira FARAHANI 4 1,3 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box 14115-336, Tehran, Iran. 2 ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insects Resources, P.B. No. 2491, H.A. Farm Post, Bellary Road, Hebbal, 560 024 Bangalore, India. 4 Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), P.O. Box 13185-116, Tehran, Iran. * Corresponding author: [email protected] 1 Email: [email protected] 2 Email: [email protected] 4 Email: [email protected] 1 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:6F685437-6655-4D8B-9DD5-C66A0824B987 2 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:AC7B7E50-D525-4630-B1E9-365ED5511B79 3 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:71CB13A9-F9BD-4DDE-8CB1-A495036975FE 4 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:423DEB84-81C3-4179-BDE2-88A827CD4865 Abstract. The present study is based on the genus Cotesia Cameron,1891 collected from Khuzestan Province in the Southwestern part of Iran during 2016–2017. Nine species (+200 specimens) of the genus Cotesia were collected and identified. We recognised three new species, which we describe and illustrate here: Cotesia elongata Zargar & Gupta sp. nov., C. khuzestanesis Zargar & Gupta sp. nov. and C. zagrosensis Zargar & Gupta sp. nov. Two species are recorded for the first time from Iran: Cotesia cynthiae (Nixon, 1974) and C. glabrata (Telenga, 1955). A faunistic list with species distribution in Iran, a modified key to include the new species and brief diagnoses for the new records from Iran are provided. Keywords. Cotesia, Khuzestan, faunistic list, modified key. Zargar M., Gupta A., Talebi A.A. & Farahani S. 2019. Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran. European Journal of Taxonomy 571: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2019.571 Introduction Braconidae Nees, 1811 is the second largest family of Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758, and the subfamily Microgastrinae Förster, 1862 is known with over 2710 described species worldwide (Yu et al. 2016). 1 European Journal of Taxonomy 571: 1–25 (2019) Microgastrinae is one of the largest groups of parasitoids in terms of both species richness and economic importance (Rodriguez et al. 2013). The genus Cotesia Cameron, 1891 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), with 296 described species worldwide, is one of the largest genera of parasitoid wasps in the megadiverse subfamily Microgastrinae (Yu et al. 2016). The actual diversity of Cotesia has been estimated from 1500 (Mason 1981) to 2500 species around the world (van Achterberg & Polaszek 1996). The genus Cotesia was erected by Cameron (1891), but was later synonymized with Apanteles Szépligeti, 1904 (Szépligeti 1904) until the generic reclassification of the Microgastrinae by Mason (1981). Microgastrine genera are either solitary or gregarious endoparasitoids. Small broods with two or three individuals are known in a few cases, e.g., C. astrarches (Marshall, 1889) with 3‒6 indiviuals in the host Aricia Reichenbach, 1817 (Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758: Lycaenidae Leach, 1815) (Shaw 2012; Quicke 2015). Gupta et al. (2016a) used the gregarious species of the genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead, 1904 to generate accurate boundaries between species/species-groups using an integrated approach with three different sets of data (morphology, host records and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) nucleotide sequences). Gupta & Fernández-Triana (2014) and Fernández-Triana et al. (2014) recorded many gregarious and solitary hosts associated with Cotesia from the Oriental and Neotropical regions, respecively. Species of this genus are selected regularly as biological control agents. Cotesia flavipes Cameron, 1891 and other closely allied species, such as C. chilonis (Munakata, 1912), C. sesamiae (Cameron, 1906) and C. nonagriae (Olliff, 1893), attack a wide range of sugarcane pests, such as Chilo partellus (Swinhoe, 1885) and C. sacchariphagus (Bojer, 1856) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae Latreille, 1810) (Quicke 2015). Several species of Cotesia have also been applied as model organisms in physiology, ecology and population genetics studies (Michel-Salzat & Whitfield 2004). Despite the immense species diversity of the genus, the members tend to appear relatively uniform morphologically. Cotesia can be identified by the shape of the first and second tergites and propodeum sculpture. The first tergite never narrows apically, is a little longer than wide and broadens apically, but sometimes is wider than long; the width of the second tergite is 1.5 times the apical width of the first tergite or less. The propodeum is rugose and never has an areola, usually with a median longitudinal carina that sometimes becomes partly obscured by rugosity. Until now, only two species, Cotesia pistrinariae (Wilkinson, 1929) and Cotesia trabalae Gupta, 2016, across the globe are known to have a strongly narrowing first tergite at midlength (Guptaet al. 2016b). The faunal studies on the subfamily Microgastrinae are gaining importance in Iran (Farahani et al. 2014, 2016; Gadallah et al. 2015; Ghafouri Moghaddam et al. 2018; Abdoli et al. 2019a, 2019b; Zargar et al. 2019a, 2019b). To date, 34 species of the genus Cotesia have been reported from Iran (Farahani et al. 2016; Samin et al. 2018). Considering the species richness and poor number of known species from Iran, detailed taxonomic and faunistic studies on this subfamily are essentially warranted. In the present study on the Microgastrinae fauna of the Khuzestan Province, three new species and two new distributional records are presented along with an updated faunistic list from Iran. Material and methods The specimens were collected from different areas of the Khuzestan Province during 2016–2017 using Malaise traps. Khuzestan Province includes mountainous areas located in the north, with plains and sea-level areas in the south. The vegetation of Khuzestan is diverse from oak forests dominated by Quercus brantii Lindley, 1840 (Fagales Engler, 1892: Fagaceae Dumort, 1829) in the highlands to marshy lands in the low elevation areas. The specimens were fortnightly removed from the collecting bottle and preserved in 70% alcohol. For mounting on card, the wasps were transferred into 70%, 90%, and 100% alcohol, 20 minutes each for dehydration, respectively. Later, the wasps were placed on the filter paper for drying and finally were card mounted and eventually labelled. Further, the specimens were incubated in 50±5ºC for two hours for complete dehydration. The specimens used in the present 2 ZARGAR M. et al., Three new species of Cotesia from Iran study are deposited in the collections of TMUC or ICAR-NBAIR. Photos of the species were taken with a Leica M 205 A stereo microscope with Leica DC 420 inbuilt camera using automontage software (ver. 3.8). Terminology and measurement follows Nixon (1965) and Mason (1981), vein terminology follows van Achterberg (1993). Nixon (1974) and Papp (1986, 1987) were consulted for identification. Abbreviations: FLnl/w = ratio of length of flagellomere segment to width MOD = median ocellar diameter OOL = ocullar-ocellar line POL = postocellar line TI, TII, TIII = first, second and third tergite, respectively Repositories: ICAR-NBAIR = National Insect Museum, ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru, India TMUC = Department of Entomology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran Results New species Class Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Order Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Superfamily Ichneumonoidea Latreille, 1802 Family Braconidae Nees, 1811 Subfamily Microgastrinae Förster, 1862 Tribe Cotesiini Mason, 1981 Cotesia Cameron, 1891 Cotesia Cameron, 1891: 182–194 (type species: Cotesia flavipes(Cameron, 1891)). Cotesia elongata Zargar & Gupta sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:79D3997B-4118-42F3-A579-2E1B75BB4FE7 Fig. 1 Diagnosis Penultimate segment of antenna 2.2 × as long as wide; mesoscutum densely evenly punctate, in lateral lobes presence of smooth area near tegula; notauli indicated by dense punctations; scutellum sparsely punctate in anterior half, punctation dense in posterior half (Fig. 1C); pterostigma 4.0 × as long as wide, light brown; vein 1–R1 1.4 × as long as pterostigma, 3.0 × as long as distance from end of vein 1–R1 to tip of radial cell (Fig. 1D); third tergite median length 0.7 × as long as second tergite (Fig. 1E). Etymology The name is derived from the Latin ‘elongata’, meaning ‘elongate’, and referring to the second metasomal tergite, which is longer than third tergite, while in the closely related species, Cotesia ruficrus(Haliday, 1834), it is shorter than the third tergite. 3 European Journal of Taxonomy 571: 1–25 (2019) Material examined Holotype IRAN • ♀; Khuzestan Province, Dezful, Shahrak-e Shahid Mohammad Montazeri; 32°26′83.16″ N, 48°37′67.79″ E; 97 m a.s.l.; 22 May 2017; M. Zargar leg.; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; ICAR-NBAIR/ NIM/MICROG/COT/22517H. Paratypes IRAN • 4 ♀♀; Khuzestan Province, Dezful, Qaleh-ye Rob-e Bandbal; 32°17ʹ27.94″ N, 48°25′46.98″ E; 97 m a.s.l.; 20 Mar.‒3 Apr. 2016, 7‒21 Jun. 2017; TMUC-HBMC0001-0004 • 3 ♀♀; Shamsabad; 32°29ʹ64.65″ N, 48°42′57.45″ E; 94 m a.s.l.; 8‒22 May 2017, 5‒19 Jun. 2017; TMUC-HBMC0005-0007 • 9 ♀♀; Zoviyeh; 31°46ʹ20.56″ N, 48°48′01.17″ E; 30 m a.s.l.; 5‒19 Jun. 2017; TMUC-HBMC0008-0016 • 10 ♀♀; Lali, Taraz; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 3‒17 Mar. 2016, 4‒18 May 2016, 5‒19 Mar. 2017, 5‒19 May 2017, 22 Jun.‒6 Jul. 2017; TMUC-HBMC00017-0026, ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/ MICROG/COT/4516 • 5 ♀♀; Andika, Chezi; 32°08ʹ02.78″ N, 49°38′30.56″ E; 650 m a.s.l.; 20 Apr.‒4 May 2016, 4‒18 Jun.
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