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Iranian Species of Cirrospilus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with the Description of a New Species Iranian species of Cirrospilus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) with the description of a new species Hosseinali Lotfalizadeh & Gérard Delvare Eigth species of the genus Cirrospilus Westwood, 1832 (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) have been recognized in Iran: C. ingenuus Gahan, 1932, C. lyncus Walker, 1838, C. pictus (Nees, 1834), C. scapus Yefremova, 2007, C. staryi Bouček, 1958, C. variegatus (Masi, 1907), C. viticola (Rondani, 1877) and C. vittatus Walker, 1838. A new species – Cirrospilus persicus – is described. Diagnostic characters are discussed and illustrations are provided to distinguish the new species. Host and distribution data are summarized for the species known from Iran including some new biological data. Hosseinali Lotfalizadeh*, Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Research Center for Agriculture & Natural Resources, Tabriz, Iran. [email protected] Gérard Delvare, Cirad, UMR CBGP (Inra / IRD / Cirad / Montpellier SupAgro), Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex, France. [email protected] Introduction lus pictus (Nees, 1834) has shown potential value for The genus Cirrospilus Westwood, 1832 (Hymenop- biological control of the same pest (La Salle 1996, tera: Eulophidae) is a large and wide spread genus of Schauff et al. 1998). Eulophinae, with over 135 species worldwide (Ubai- Eight species of this genus have been recorded from dillah et al. 2003), of which 38 are Palearctic (Noyes Iran so far (Malekzadeh et al. 1998, Jafari 2000, 2009) and 24 Nearctic (Schauff et al. 1998). Mono- Farrokhi et al. 2004, Asadi et al. 2006, Hesami et phyly of Cirrospilus, as the largest genus of the tribe al. 2006, Baniameri & Mohammadi-Pour 2007, Cirrospilini, was not supported by a morphological Yefremova et al. 2007, Ebrahimi et al. 2008), in analysis (Ubaidillah et al. 2003). most cases reared from leaf-mining pests (Diptera, Cirrospilus species are parasitoids, more rarely hyper- Agromyzidae and Lepidoptera Gracillariidae). Yefre- parasitoids, of lepidopteran, hymenopteran, dip- mova et al. (2007) keyed out the eight species known teran and coleopteran leaf-miners or other small from Iran, including a new species: Cirrospilus scapus sheltered larvae or pupae; they are sometimes quoted Yefremova, 2007. Recently an additional species of as egg parasitoids (Zhu et al. 2002). A few species the genus was collected in the Northwest of Iran; it are associated with galls (Viggiani 1971, Gauthier et is described here as new. al. 2000). Some species such as Cirrospilus ingenuus The purposes of this paper are: 1) review the Iranian Gahan, 1932 – an important exotic ectoparasitoid in species of Cirrospilus; 2) describe a new Cirrospilus Mediterranean areas – was introduced to control the species; 3) provide an updated list of the species and citrus leaf-miner, Phyllocnistis citrella Stainton, 1856 their distribution in Iran; 4) update the biological (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae). Another one, Cirrospi- information including new data. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 154: 173–180, Figs 1–9, Table 1. [ISSN 0040–7496]. http://www.nev.nl/tve © 2011 Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging. Published 1 December 2011. * Corresponding author 174 Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, volume 154, 2011 300 μm 1 300 μm 2 300 μm 300 μm 3 4 Figs 1–4. Cirrospilus persicus, female - 1, Head in dorsal view; 2, head in frontal view; 3, pronotum and mesonotum in dorsal view; 4, antenna. Material and methods Deposition of material The new species was collected on bushes of Salsola CBGP Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des dendroides Pall., 1803 (Chenopodiaceae). The bushes Populations, Montpellier, France were shacked on a white tray and all specimens were HMIM Hayk Mirzayans Insect Museum, Tehran, collected with an aspirator. Some small caterpillars Iran were observed on the plant; they might be the host MNHG Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève, of this species. Switzerland The description is provided from critical point dried, not collapsed specimens. Morphological terminol- ogy follows Gibson et al. (1997). One photograph Results (Fig. 9) was made with a scanning electron-micros- copy (Zeiss DSM 950). The other images were pro- Cirrospilus Westwood duced by an EntoVision Premium Portable Imaging System, comprising a Leica M16 zoom lens attached Cirrospilus can be distinguished from other Eulophi- to a JVC KY-75U 3CCD digital camera and a port- dae by the presence of the following character states: able computer workstation running EntoVision funicle two segmented in both sexes; notauli com- Imaging Suite software (GT Vision, Hagerstown, plete and straight, reaching or nearly so the trans- MD USA). Cartograph 5.6.0 (Microvision, Evry, scutal line posteriorly; scutellum with longitudinal France) software was subsequently used to merge an submedian grooves, grooves sometimes indicated image series producing a single image with increased by change in sculpture only; submarginal vein with depth of field. In the following presentation the spe- 3 or more dorsal setae; posterior pair of scutellar cies are ordered alphabetically. setae close to the hind margin of the scutellum; .
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