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The genus Aspilota Foerster (: : Alysiinae) in western Asia

Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo1*, Ali Ameri2, Ehsan Rakhshani3 and Sergey A. Belokobylskij4

1 Bleichestrasse 15, CH–4058 Basel, Switzerland. 2 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, P. O. Box: 98615-538, I. R. Iran. 4 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia; Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, Warszawa 00–679, Poland.

ABSTRACT. New data for the genus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 (Braconidae: Received: Alysiinae) of the Western Asia are provided. Four species, A. flagimilis Fischer, 01 August, 2016 1966, A. insolita (Tobias, 1962), A. latitemporata Fischer, 1976 and A. nidicola

Accepted: Hedqvist, 1972, are recorded for the first time from Iran. Illustrated re- 15 August, 2016 descriptions of Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011, A. delicata Fischer, 1973, A. flagimilis, A. insolita, A. latitemporata, and A. Published: 16 August, 2016 nidicola are presented. A key to the Western Asian species of Aspilota is provided. Subject Editor: Cornelis Key words: Parasitoids of Diptera, Alysiinae, Aspilota, western Asia, Iran, van Achterberg redescriptions, key.

Citation: Peris-Felipo, F.J., Ameri, A., Rakhshani, E. and Belokobylskij, S.A. 2016. The genus Aspilota Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) in western Asia. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2 (2): 259– 283.

Introduction Foerster, 1863 (including Pterusa Fischer, 1958), Eudinostigma Tobias, 1986, Aspilota genera-complex is the most Grandilota Fischer, 2002, Leptotrema van taxonomically complicate group within the Achterberg, 1988, Lysodinotrema Fischer, tribe Alysiinae (Hym., Braconidae), mainly 1995, Neorthostigma Belokobylskij, 1998, because of very small body size and their Orthostigma Ratzeburg, 1844, Panerema reduced number of reliable diagnostic Foerster, 1863, Regetus Papp, 1999, and characters (Belokobylskij 2005). With about Synaldis Foerster, 1863 (Peris-Felipo et al. 750 species described worldwide (Yu et al. 2014a, b, c). 2012), this group includes the following genera: Adelphenaldis Fischer, 2003, Alithia The genus Aspilota is well defined in this Cameron, 1906, Aspilota Foerster, 1863, group by the presence of the paraclypeal Carinthilota Fischer, 1975, Cubitalostigma fovea reaching the inner margin of eye and Fischer, 1998, Dinostigma Fischer, 1966, the presence of the vein cuqu1 (2-SR) of the

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fore wing (van Achterberg 1988; Peris-Felipo Sweden; NHRS), and Zoological Institute and Belokobylskij 2016). of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St About 250 species were described in the Petersburg, Russia; ZISP). genus Aspilota from nearly all zoogeographic regions. However, only three species have Results been previously recorded in the western Asia Seven species of Aspilota are recorded from (Yu et al. 2012; Gadallah et al. 2015; Peris- the Western Asia. All these taxa are re- Felipo et al. 2016a). Farahani et al. (2016) also described, illustrated and keyed. The recorded Aspilota intermissa Fischer, 1974, species are listed alphabetically below. from Iran, however, according to the revision by Peris-Felipo et al. (2014a) this species Order Hymenoptera actually belongs to the genus Dinotrema. In Family Braconidae this work, additional species of the genus Subfamily Alysiinae Aspilota are recorded for Iran with re- Genus Aspilota Foerster, 1863 descriptions of all the previously known species. Finally, an identification key to the Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod, western Asian species of Aspilota is provided. Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011 (Figs. 1, 2) Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Material and methods Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011: 128; Khajeh et al., 2014: 415; Gadallah et al., 2015: 4; Peris- For the terminology of the morphological Felipo et al., 2016a: 126; Farahani et al., features, sculpture and measurements, see 2016: 5. Peris-Felipo et al. (2014a); for wing venation nomenclature, see Peris-Felipo et al. (2014a) Material examined. IRAN: 1 ♀ (holotype), and in parenthesis van Achterberg (1993). [Fars province], Zarghan, swept on The keys by Fischer (1976, 1978), Medicago sativa L., 20.v.2008 (Lashkari leg.) Belokobylskij and Tobias (2007) and Papp (NHMW); 1 ♀, Khuzistan [province], Desful (2008) were used for the identification of [Dezful], iii-iv.1978, yellow tray (V.F. the Aspilota species. The material was Eastop leg.) [B.M. 1975–46] (BMNH). imaged using Digital Microscope Keyence® Re-description. Female (holotype). Body VHX-2000 and then processed in Adobe length 2.0 mm; fore wing length 1.9 mm; Photoshop® imaging system. The following hind wing length 1.5 mm. abbreviations are used for morphological Head. In dorsal view 1.8 times as wide as terminology: POL: postocellar line; OOL: its median length, 1.4 times as wide as ocular-ocellar line; OD: maximum diameter mesoscutum, smooth, with temple of lateral ocellus. Abbreviations used for rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view the collections where material is deposited 1.7 times as high as its width and 0.7 times are: Department of Entomology, Tarbiat as wide as temple, medially. POL 1.2 times Modares University (Tehran, Iran; TMUC), OD; OOL 3.9 times OD. Face 1.6 times as Entomological Collection at the University wide as high; inner margins of eyes of Valencia (Valencia, Spain; ENV), Natural subparallel. Clypeus 2.1 times as wide as History Museum London (London, UK; high, slightly concave ventrally. Mandible BMNH), Naturhistorisches Museum Wien 3-dentate, not widened towards apex, (Vienna, Austria; NHMW), Swedish paralell sides, 1.2 times as long as its Museum of Natural History (Stockholm, maximum width.

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Figure 1. Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi (female, holotype): A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, front view; C. Mandible; D. Antenna; E. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; F. Head and mesonotum, dorsal view.

Upper tooth distinctly shorter than lower its apical width, 1.3 times as long as second tooth, small and rounded; middle tooth segment. Second and third flagellar rather long and narrow, longer than lower segments 2.0 times as long as its maximum tooth, pointed apically; lower tooth widest, width; fourth and fifth segments 1.6 times, rounded, distinctly turned downwards. sixth to tenth segments 1.4 times, 11th to Antennae 15-segmented, shorter than 13th segments 1.7 times, and 15th (apical) body. Scape 2.2 times longer than pedicel. segment 2.5 times as long as their width First flagellar segment 3.3 times as long as accordingly.

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Figure 2. Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi (female, holotype): A. Propodeum; B. First metasomal tergite; C. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view; D. Fore and hind wings.

Mesosoma. In lateral view 1.2 times as long r2 (3-SR). Brachial (first subdiscal) cell as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) 0.8 times closed distally, 2.2 times as long as its as long as its maximum width, smooth. maximum width. Hind wing 4.2 times as Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface long as its maximum width. of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit absent. Pres- Legs. Hind femur 4.5 times as long as its cutellar depression smooth, without lateral maximum width. Hind tibia weakly carinae. Precoxal sulcus present, crenulate, widened towards apex, 9.7 times as long as not reaching anterior and posterior margins its maximum subapical width, 0.9 times as of mesopleuron. Posterior mesopleural long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind furrow crenulate in upper half, smooth in tarsus 1.8 times as long as second segment. lower half. Propodeum widely sculptured Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly without distinct longitudinal median widened towards apex, 1.4 times as long as carinae. Propodeal spiracles relatively small. its apical width, finely rugose-striate in Wings. Length of fore wing 2.6 times as apical half. Ovipositor 1.5 times as long as long as its maximum width. Radial first tergite, 0.4 times as long as metasoma, (marginal) cell ending at apex of wing, 4.1 0.8 times as long as hind femur, 0.07 times times as long as its maximum width. Vein as long as fore wing. r2 (3-SR) 2.0 times as long as vein cuqu1 (2- Colour. Body light brown. Antenna mainly SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.5 times as long as vein and pterostigma brown. Scape, pedicel,

Peris-Felipo et al. 263 mandibles and legs yellowish brown. Wings Re-description. Female (holotype). Body hyaline. length 1.6 mm; fore wing length 2.4 mm; Variation. Body length 2.0–2.1 mm; fore hind wing length 1.7 mm. wing length 1.9–2.0 mm. Antennae 15–17- Head. In dorsal view twice as wide as its segmented. Eye in lateral view 0.6–0.7 median length, 1.5 times as wide as times as wide as temple medially. Hind mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded femur 4.3–4.5 times as long as its maximum behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 0.9 times as width. First metasomal tergite 1.4–1.5 times high as its width and 0.7 times as wide as as long as its apical width. temple, medially. POL 2.0 times OD; OOL 4.0 Male. Unknown. times OD. Face 1.8 times as wide as high; inner margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus Comparative diagnosis. This species is 2.7 times as wide as high, slightly concave, similar to Aspilota latitemporata Fischer, 1969, ventrally. Mandible 3-dentate, not widened but differs from it in having the precoxal towards apex, parallel-sided, 1.4 times as sulcus not reaching anterior and posterior long as its maximum width. Upper tooth margins of the mesopleuron (reaching distinctly shorter than lower tooth, small and anterior and posterior margins in A. rounded; middle tooth rather long and latitemporata), first flagellar segment 3.3 times narrow, longer than lower tooth, pointed as long as its maximum width (3.8 times in apically; lower tooth widest, rounded, A. latitemporata), hind femur 4.5 times as long weakly turned downwards. Antennae 18- as its maximum width (3.5 times in A. segmented, as long as body. Scape 2.2 times latitemporata), first metasomal tergite 1.4 longer than pedicel. First flagellar segment times as long as its apical width (1.8 times in 4.0 times as long as its apical width, 1.1 times A. latitemporata), and clypeus 2.1 times as as long as second segment. Second flagellar wide as high (2.6 times in A. latitemporata). segment 3.0 times as long as its maximum Distribution. Iran (Yu et al. 2012). width; third to tenth segments 2.0 times, 11th to 15th segments 1.1–1.2 times, and 16th Aspilota delicata Fischer, 1973 (Figs. 3, 4) (apical) segment 1.8 times as long as their Aspilota delicata Fischer, 1973: 248; 1976: 357, width accordingly. Papp, 2007: 100; Ghahari et al., 2011: 1271; Mesosoma. In lateral view, 1.2 times as Yu et al., 2012; Peris-Felipo, 2013: 96; Peris- long as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) as Felipo et al., 2014b: 7; Khajeh et l., 2014: 415; long as its maximum width, smooth. Gadallah et al., 2015: 4; Broad et al., 2016: 22; Notauli mainly absent on horizontal Peris-Felipo et al., 2016a: 126; Farahani et al., surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit 2016: 5. absent. Prescutellar depression smooth, Material examined. AUSTRIA: 1 ♀ (holotype), without lateral carinae. Precoxal sulcus Salzburg, Parsch, an Waldlichtung, 9.x.1961 present, crenulate, not reaching anterior (P.P. Babiy leg.) (NHMW); 1 ♀ (paratype), and posterior margins of mesopleuron. same locality but, an Gebuesch, 24.x.1961 Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulate. (P.P. Babiy leg.) (NHMW). IRAN: 1 ♀, Propodeum with pentagonal areola. Kerman province, Lalezar, 29º3′52.57″N, Propodeal spiracles relatively small. 56º47′49.93″E, 2706 m, 27.vi.2013 (A. Ameri Wings. Length of fore wing 2.7 times as leg.) (TMUC); 1 ♀, Hormozgan province, long as its maximum width. Radial Zakin, 27º51′08.33″N, 56º19′03.68″E, 1335 m, (marginal) cell ending at apex of wing, 4.3 11.iv.2013 (A. Ameri leg.) (TMUC). times as long as its maximum width.

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Figure 3. Aspilota delicata Fischer (female, holotype): A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, front view; C. Mandible; D. Antenna; E. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; F. Head and mesonotum, dorsal view.

Vein r2 (3-SR) 2.5 times as long as vein Legs. Hind femur 4.7 times as long as its cuqu1 (2-SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.4 times as long maximum width. Hind tibia weakly as vein r2 (3-SR). Brachial (first subdiscal) widened towards apex, 9.5 times as long as cell closed distally, 2.5 times as long as its its maximum subapical width, 1.1 times as maximum width. Hind wing 4.3 times as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind long as its maximum width. tarsus 1.7 times as long as second segment.

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Figure 4. Aspilota delicata Fischer (female, holotype): A. Propodeum; B. First metasomal tergite; C. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view; D. Fore and hind wings.

Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly but differs from it in having the first widened towards apex, 2.0 times as long flagellar segment 4.0 times as long as its as its apical width, finely rugose-striate in maximum width (3.3 times in A. nidicola), apical half. Ovipositor 0.9 times as long hind femur 4.7 times as long as its as first tergite, 0.25 times as long as maximum width (4.2 times in A. nidicola), metasoma, 0.5 times as long as hind face 1.8 times as wide as high (1.5 times femur, 0.08 times as long as fore wing. in A. nidicola) and clypeus 2.7 times as Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma wide as high (2.3 times in A. nidicola). brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish brown. Distribution. Austria, Denmark, England, Wings hyaline. Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Variation. Body length 1.6–1.8 mm; fore Scotland, Spain, Sweden (Yu et al. 2012; wing length 2.4–2.5 mm; hind wing Peris-Felipo 2013; Broad et al. 2016; Peris- length 1.7–1.8 mm. Antennae 18–19- Felipo et al. 2016b, Koponen et al. 2016). segmented. Hind femur 4.7–4.8 times as Aspilota flagimilis Fischer, 1966 (Figs. 5, 6) long as its maximum width. Aspilota flagimilis Fischer, 1996: 661; Male. Unknown. Fischer et al., 2008: 1454; Yu et al., 2012; Comparative diagnosis. This species is Peris-Felipo, 2013: 97; Peris-Felipo et al., similar to Aspilota nidicola Hedqvist, 1972, 2014b: 7.

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Figure 5. Aspilota flagimilis Fischer (female, holotype): A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, front view; C. Mandible; D. Antenna; E. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; F. Head and mesonotum, dorsal view.

Material examined. SPAIN: 1 ♀ (holotype), Head. In dorsal view 1.9 times as wide as its Sagunto, 12.iv.1960 (Docavo leg.) (NHMW). median length, 1.5 times as wide as IRAN: 3 ♀♀, Isfahan province, Najafabad, mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded swept on Chenopodium sp., 6.vi.2012 (E. behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.4 times as Nader leg.) (ENV, NHMW). high as its width and about as wide as Re-description. Female (holotype). Body temple medially. POL 1.8 times OD; OOL length 1.5 mm; fore wing length 2.1 mm; 3.4 times OD. Face 1.8 times as wide as hind wing length 1.5 mm. high; inner margins of eyes subparallel.

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Figure 6. Aspilota flagimilis Fischer (female, holotype): A. Propodeum; B. First metasomal tergite; C. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view; D. Fore and hind wings.

Clypeus 2.5 times as wide as high, slightly Mesosoma. In lateral view, 1.2 times as long concave ventrally. Mandible 3-dentate, as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) as long weakly widened towards apex, 1.8 times as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli as long as its maximum width. Upper mainly absent on horizontal surface of tooth distinctly shorter than lower tooth, mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit absent. small and rounded; middle tooth long and Prescutellar depression smooth, without narrow, longer than lower tooth, pointed lateral carinae. Precoxal sulcus present, apically; lower tooth widest, rounded, crenulate, not reaching anterior and distinctly turned downwards. Antennae posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior 16-segmented, as long as body. Scape 2.6 mesopleural furrow crenulate in upper half, times longer than pedicel. First flagellar smooth in lower part. Propodeum with segment 4.2 times as long as its apical pentagonal areola. Propodeal spiracles width, 1.1 times as long as second relatively small. segment. Second flagellar segment 3.6 Wings. Length of fore wing 2.7 times as times as long as its maximum width; 3rd long as its maximum width. Radial segment 2.5 times, 4th to 6th segments (marginal) cell ending at apex of wing, 4.1 2.1–2.2 times, seventh to 13th segments 2.0 times as long as its maximum width. Vein times, and 14th (apical) segment 2.8 times r2 (3-SR) 2.9 times as long as vein cuqu1 as long as their width accordingly. (2-SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.2 times as long as

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vein r2 (3-SR). Brachial (first subdiscal) medially (0.8 times in A. nidicola), mandible cell closed distally, 3.2 times as long as its 1.8 times as long as its maximum width (1.3 maximum width. Hind wing 6.0 times as times in A. nidicola), first flagellar segment long as its maximum width. 4.2 times as long as its maximum width (3.3 Legs. Hind femur 4.9 times as long as its times in A. nidicola), posterior mesopleural maximum width. Hind tibia weakly furrow crenulate in upper half, smooth in widened towards apex, 10.7 times as long as lower part (completely crenulate in A. nidicola), vein r2 (3-SR) 2.9 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 1.2 times as vein cuqu1 (2-SR) (2.3 times in A. nidicola), long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind hind femur 4.9 times as long as its tarsus 2.3 times as long as second segment. maximum width (4.2 times in A. nidicola), Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly widened and first metasomal tergite 2.4 times as long towards apex, 2.4 times as long as its apical as its apical width (1.8 times in A. nidicola). width, striate in apical half. Ovipositor 1.1 Distribution. Spain (Yu et al. 2012), Iran times as long as first tergite, 0.4 times as long (new record). as metasoma, 0.7 times as long as hind femur, 0.1 times as long as fore wing. Aspilota insolita (Tobias, 1962) (Figs. 7, 8) Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma Orthostigma insolita Tobias, 1962: 98; Aspilota brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish brown. insolita: Fischer, 1976: 353; Fischer et al., 2008: Wings hyaline. 1454; Yu et al., 2012; Peris-Felipo, 2013: 98; Variation. Body length 1.5–1.6 mm; fore Peris-Felipo et al., 2014b: 8; Broad et al., 2016: 23. wing length 2.0–2.1 mm; hind wing length Material examined. RUSSIA: 1 ♂ (holotype), 1.5–1.6 mm. Antennae 16–17-segmented. "Tolmachevo, Leningradsk. [aya Province], First flagellar segment 4.2–4.3 times as long Tobias [coll.], 18.VIII. [1]960" (ZISP). as its maximum width. Second flagellar IRAN: 2 ♀♀, Kerman province, Delfard, segment 3.0–3.2 times as long as its apical 28°57′59.23″N, 57°38′34.73″E, 2068 m, 6 & width. Hind femur 4.8–4.9 times as long as 30.iv.2013 (A. Ameri leg.) (TMUC). its maximum width. First metasomal tergite Re-description. Male (holotype). Body 2.4–2.5 times as long as its apical width. length 1.9 mm; fore wing length 2.1 mm; Male. Unknown. hind wing length 1.3 mm. Comparative diagnosis. This species is Head. In dorsal view, 1.6 times as wide as similar to Aspilota delicata Fischer, 1973 and its median length, 1.6 times as wide as A. nidicola Hedqvist, 1972. Aspilota flagimilis mesoscutum, smooth, with temple differs from A. delicata in having the eye in rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view lateral view about as wide as temple 1.6 times as high as its width and about as medially (0.7 times in A. delicata), mandible wide as temple medially. POL 1.4 times 1.8 times as long as its maximum width (1.4 OD; OOL 3.6 times OD. Face 1.5 times as times in A. delicata), posterior mesopleural wide as high; inner margins of eyes furrow crenulate in upper half, smooth in subparallel. Clypeus 2.0 times as wide as lower part (completely crenulate in A. high, slightly concave ventrally. Mandible delicata), vein r2 (3-SR) 2.9 times as long as 3-dentate, not widened towards apex, 1.4 vein cuqu1 (2-SR) (2.5 times in A. delicata), times as long as its maximum width. Up- and first metasomal tergite 2.4 times as per tooth distinctly shorter than lower long as its apical width (2.0 times in A. tooth, small and rounded; middle tooth delicata). On the other hand, A. flagimilis long and narrow, longer than lower tooth, differs from A. nidicola in having the eye in pointed apically; lower tooth wide, lateral view about as wide as temple rounded, distinctly turned downwards.

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Figure 7. Aspilota insolita (Tobias) (male, holotype): A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, front view; C. Mandible; D. Antenna; E. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; F. Head and mesonotum, dorsal view.

Antennae 18-segmented, 0.9 times as long as 2.6 times, seventh to 12th segments 2.4 body. Scape 2.0 times longer than pedicel. times, 13th to 15th 2.2 times, and 16th First flagellar segment 5.3 times as long as (apical) segment 2.0 times as long as their its apical width, 1.1 times as long as second width accordingly. segment. Second flagellar segment 4.6 times Mesosoma. In lateral view, 1.3 times as as long as its maximum width; third long as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) segment 3.2 times, fourth to sixth segments as long as its maximum width, smooth.

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Figure 8. Aspilota insolita (Tobias) (male, holotype): A. Propodeum and first metasomal tergite; B. Hind leg and metasoma, lateral view; C. Fore wing.

Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface Legs. Hind femur 4.1 times as long as its of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit absent maximum width. Hind tibia weakly Prescutellar depression smooth, without widened towards apex, 10.0 times as long lateral carinae. Precoxal sulcus present, as its maximum subapical width, 1.1 times crenulate, not reaching anterior and posterior as long as hind tarsus. First segment of margins of mesopleuron. Posterior meso- hind tarsus 1.8 times as long as second pleural furrow crenulate in upper half, segment. smooth in lower part. Propodeum with Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly pentagonal areola. Propodeal spiracles widened towards apex, 2.5 times as long as relatively small. its apical width, striate in apical half. Wings. Length of fore wing 2.7 times as Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma long as its maximum width. Radial brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish (marginal) cell ending at apex of wing, 4.0 brown. Wings hyaline. times as long as its maximum width. Vein Female (main characters). Body length 2.1 r2 (3-SR) 1.9 times as long as vein cuqu1 (2- mm; fore wing length 2.4 mm; hind wing SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.5 times as long as vein length 1.5 mm. r2 (3-SR). Brachial (subdiscal) cell closed distally, 3.0 times as long as its maximum Head. Eye in lateral view 1.7 times as high width. Hind wing 5.5 times as long as its as its width and as wide as temple maximum width. medially. Face 1.7 times as wide as high.

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Clypeus 2.1 times as wide as high. Mandible width (3.3 times in A. isfahanensis), middle 1.4–1.5 times as long as its maximum width. flagellar segments 2.2–2.6 times as long as Antennae 17–19-segmented. First flagellar their maximum width (1.8–2.0 in A. segment 4.7–4.8 times as long as its apical isfahanensis), vein r2 (3-SR) 1.9 times as long as width. Second flagellar segment 4.3 times as vein cuqu1 (2-SR) (2.3 times in A. isfahanensis), long as its maximum width; third segment face 1.5 times as wide as high (1.9 times in A. 3.0 times, fourth to penultimate segments isfahanensis) and clypeus 2.0 times as wide as 2.3–2.5 times, and apical segment 2.2 times high (2.5 times in A. isfahanensis). as long as their width accordingly. Distribution. Former Czechoslovakia, Mesosoma. In lateral view, 1.2 times as long Denmark, England, Hungary, Ireland, as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) as long Russia, Spain (Yu et al. 2012; Broad et al. 2016; as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli Peris-Felipo et al. 2016b), Iran (new record). mainly absent on horizontal surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit absent. Aspilota isfahanensis Peris-Felipo, 2016 Prescutellar depression smooth, without (Figs. 9, 10) lateral carinae. Precoxal sulcus present, Aspilota isfahanensis Peris-Felipo in Peris- crenulate, not reaching anterior and Felipo et al., 2016a: 122. posterior margins of mesopleuron. Posterior Material examined. IRAN: 1 ♀ (holotype), mesopleural furrow crenulate in upper half, Isfahan [province], Najafabad, 6.x.2012, smooth in lower part. Propodeum with swept on Chenopodium sp. (E. Nader leg.) pentagonal areola. Propodeal spiracles (NHMW); 1 ♀ (paratype), same data as relatively small. for holotype (ZISP). Wings. Length of fore wing 2.5 times as long Main characters of species. Female. Body as its maximum width. Radial (marginal) length 1.8 mm; fore wing length 2.0 mm; cell ending at apex of wing, 4.0 times as long hind wing length 1.6 mm. as its maximum width. Vein r2 (3-SR) 1.9– 2.0 times as long as vein cuqu1 (2-SR); vein Head. In dorsal view 1.9 times as wide as its r3 (SR1) 2.4–2.5 times as long as vein r2 (3- median length, 1.4 times as wide as SR). Brachial (subdiscal) cell closed distally, mesoscutum. Eye in lateral view 1.4 times as 3.0 times as long as its maximum width. high as its width and 1.7 times as wide as Hind wing 5.7 times as long as its maximum temple medially. Face 1.9 times as wide as width. high. Clypeus 2.5 times as wide as high. Mandible 1.3 times as long as its maximum Legs. Hind femur 4.0 times as long as its width. Upper tooth distinctly shorter then maximum width. lower tooth, very small and rounded; middle Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly tooth rather long and narrow, longer than widened towards apex, 2.5 times as long as lower tooth, pointed apically; lower tooth its apical width, striate in apical half. widest, rounded, distinctly turned Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma downwards. Antennae 16–17-segmented. brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish brown. First flagellar segment 3.3 times as long as its Wings hyaline. apical width, 1.3 times as long as second Comparative diagnosis. This species is segment. similar to Aspilota isfahanensis Peris-Felipo, Mesosoma. In lateral view 1.2 times as long as 2016, but differs in having the eye in lateral high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) 0.8 times as view about as wide as temple medially (1.7 long as its maximum width, smooth. times in A. isfahanensis), the first flagellar Mesoscutal pit absent. Prescutellar depression segment 5.3 times as long as its maximum smooth, without lateral carinae.

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Figure 9. Aspilota isfaherensis Peris-Felipo (female, holotype): A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, lateral view; C. Mandible; D. Antenna; E. Head, front view; F. Head, dorsal view.

Precoxal sulcus crenulate, not reaching anterior width. Vein r2 (3-SR) 2.3 times as long as and posterior margins of mesopleuron vein cuqu1 (2-SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.5 times Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulate in as long as vein r2 (3-SR). Brachial upper half, smooth in lower half. Propodeum (subdiscal) cell 3.0 times as long as its with pentagonal areola delineated by distinct maximum width. carinae. Propodeal spiracles relatively small. Legs. Hind femur claviform, 4.0 times as long Wings. Length of fore wing 2.7 times as long as its maximum width. Hind tibia 1.5 times as its maximum width. Radial (marginal) as long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind cell 4.0 times as long as its maximum tarsus twice as long as second segment.

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Figure 10. Aspilota isfaherensis Peris-Felipo (female, holotype): A. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; B. Mesonotum; C. Propodeum; D. First metasomal tergite; E. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view; F. Fore and hind wings.

Metasoma. First tergite 2.6 times as long as Comparative diagnosis. This species is its apical width, finely rugose-striate in apical similar to Aspilota insolita (Tobias, 1962); half. Ovipositor 1.2 times as long as first differences between both species are tergite, 0.4 times as long as metasoma, 0.2 shown after the re-description of the last times as long as fore wing. species. Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma dark Distribution. Iran (Peris-Felipo et al. brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish brown. 2016a). Wings hyaline. Length.

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Figure 11. Aspilota latitemporata Fischer (A., C. and D. female, holotype; B. male, paratype): A, B. Habitus, lateral view; C. Head, front view; D. Mandible; E. Antenna; F. Head and mesosoma, lateral view.

Aspilota latitemporata Fischer, 1976 (Figs. Material examined. AUSTRIA: 1 ♀ (holotype), 11, 12) Burgenland, Jabing, 28.vii.1960 (Fischer leg.) (NHMW); 1 ♂ (paratype), same data Aspilota latitemporata Fischer, 1976: 379; as holotype (NHMW). IRAN: 1 ♀, Papp, 2008: 251; Yu et al., 2012; Papp, Khuzistan [province], Desful [Dezful], iii- 2012: 168; Peris-Felipo, 2016: 94. iv.1978, yellow trays (V.F. Eastop leg.)

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Figure 12. Aspilota latitemporata Fischer (female, holotype): A. Head and mesonotum, dorsal view; B. Propodeum; C. First metasomal tergite; D. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view; E. Fore and hind wings.

[B.M. 1978–46] (BMNH); 1 ♀, Fars province, Head. In dorsal view 1.7 times as wide as its Jahrom, 28°34′01.62″N, 53°27′29.53″E, 1540 median length, 1.6 times as wide as m, 22.iv.2012 (A. Ameri leg.) (TMUC). mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.5 times as Re-description. Female (holotype). Body high as wide and 0.7 times as wide as temple length 1.5 mm; fore wing length 1.6 mm; medially. POL 1.8 times OD; OOL 3.0 times hind wing length 1.3 mm. OD. Face 1.7 times as wide as high; inner

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margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus 2.6 Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly times as wide as high, slightly concave widened towards apex, 1.8 times as long as ventrally. Mandible 3-dentate, weakly its apical width, mainly striate. Ovipositor widened towards apex, 1.3 times as long as sheath 1.3 times as long as first tergite, 0.4 its maximum width. Upper tooth distinctly times as long as metasoma, as long as hind shorter than lower tooth, and rounded; femur, 0.3 times as long as fore wing. middle tooth long and narrow, longer than Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma lower tooth, pointed apically; lower tooth widest, rounded, distinctly turned down- brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish brown. wards (Fig. 11D). Antennae 15-segmented, Wings hyaline. 0.8 times as long as body. Scape 3.0 times Variation. Body length 1.5–1.8 mm; fore longer than pedicel. First flagellar segment wing length 1.6–2.0 mm; hind wing length 3.8 times as long as its apical width, as long 1.3–1.6 mm. Antennae 15–17-segmented. as second segment. Second flagellar segment First flagellar segment 3.7–3.8 times as long 3.8 times as long as its maximum width; as its maximum width. Second flagellar third to ninth segments 1.7 times, tenth to segment 3.7–3.8 times as long as its apical 12th segments 1.4 times, and 13th (apical) width. First tergite 1.8–1.9 times as long as its segment 2.0 times as long as their width apical width. accordingly. Male. Body length 1.4 mm; fore wing length Mesosoma. In lateral view, 1.1 times as long 1.4 mm; hind wing length 1.2 mm. Hind as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) about as femur 3.4 times as long as its maximum long as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal surface width. Otherwise similar to female. of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit absent. Comparative diagnosis. This species is Prescutellar depression smooth, without similar to Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari lateral carinae. Precoxal sulcus present, Bod, Rakhshani & Talebi 2011; differences crenulate, reaching anterior and posterior between these species are shown after the margins of mesopleuron. Posterior meso- description of the last species. pleural furrow crenulate in upper half, smooth in lower part. Propodeum entirely Distribution. Austria, Hungary, Israel, sculptured without median longitudinal Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland (Yu et al. carina. Propodeal spiracles relatively small. 2012; Papp 2011-2012; Peris-Felipo 2016), Iran Wings. Length of fore wing 2.5 times as long (new record). as its maximum width. Radial (marginal) cell ending at apex of wing, 3.4 times as long as Aspilota nidicola Hedqvist, 1972 (Figs. 13, 14) its maximum width. Vein r2 (3-SR) 1.9 times Aspilota nidicola Hedqvist, 1972: 216; Fischer, as long as vein cuqu1 (2-SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.5 1976: 356; Broad et al., 2016: 24 times as long as vein r2 (3-SR). Brachial Material examined. SWEDEN: 1 ♀ (holotype), (subdiscal) cell closed distally, 2.1 times as Östergötland, Ändebol, x.1964, ex nest of long as its maximum width. Hind wing 6.3 times as long as its maximum width. Vespula vulgaris (L., 1758) (K.J. Hedqvist leg.) (NHRS). IRAN: 1 ♀, Fars province, Jahrom, Legs. Hind femur 3.5 times as long as its 28°34′01.62″N, 53°27′29.53″E, 1540 m, 22.iv.2012 maximum width. Hind tibia weakly (A. Ameri leg.) (TMUC). widened towards apex, 7.5 times as long as its maximum subapical width, 0.9 times as Re-description. Female (holotype). Body long as hind tarsus. First segment of hind length 2.5 mm; fore wing length 3.1 mm; tarsus 1.7 times as long as second segment. hind wing length 2.2 mm.

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Figure 13. Aspilota nidicola Hedqvist (female, holotype): A. Habitus, lateral view; B. Head, front view; C. Mandible; D. Antenna; E. Head and mesosoma, lateral view; F. Head and mesonotum, dorsal view.

Head. In dorsal view 2.0 times as wide as its times as wide as high, slightly concave median length, 1.5 times as wide as ventrally. Mandible 3-dentate, not widened mesoscutum, smooth, with temple rounded towards apex, 1.3 times as long as its behind eyes. Eye in lateral view 1.8 times as maximum width. Upper tooth distinctly as high as wide and 0.8 times as wide as temple long as lower tooth, small and rounded; medially. POL 1.4 times OD; OOL 3.6 times middle tooth long and narrow, longer than OD. Face 1.5 times as wide as high; inner lower tooth, pointed apically; lower tooth margins of eyes subparallel. Clypeus 2.3 rounded, distinctly turned downwards.

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Figure 14. Aspilota nidicola Hedqvist (female, holotype): A. Propodeum; B. First metasomal tergite; C. Hind leg, metasoma and ovipositor, lateral view; D. Fore and hind wings.

Antennae 20-segmented, 0.9 times as long Posterior mesopleural furrow crenulate. as body. Scape twice as long as pedicel. Propodeum with pentagonal areola. First flagellar segment 3.3 times as long Propodeal spiracles relatively small. as its apical width, 1.2 times as long as Wings. Length of fore wing 2.5 times as second segment. Second flagellar long as its maximum width. Radial segment 2.2 times as long as its maximum (marginal) cell ending at apex of wing, 4.0 width; third segment 2.0 times, fourth to times as long as its maximum width. Vein sixth segments 1.8 times, seventh to 15th r2 (3-SR) 2.3 times as long as vein cuqu1 (2- segments 1.6 times, 16th and 17th segments SR); vein r3 (SR1) 2.4 times as long as vein 2.0 times, and 14th (apical) segment 2.3 r2 (3-SR). Brachial (first subdiscal) cell times as long as their width accordingly. closed distally, 2.2 times as long as its Mesosoma. In lateral view, 1.2 times as maximum width. Hind wing 4.4 times as long as high. Mesoscutum (dorsal view) as long as its maximum width. long as its maximum width, smooth. Notauli mainly absent on horizontal Legs. Hind femur 4.2 times as long as its surface of mesoscutum. Mesoscutal pit maximum width. Hind tibia weakly absent. Prescutellar depression smooth, widened towards apex, 9.6 times as long as without lateral carinae. Precoxal sulcus its maximum subapical width, as long as present, crenulate, not reaching anterior hind tarsus. First segment of hind tarsus 2.3 and posterior margins of mesopleuron. times as long as second segment.

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Metasoma. First tergite long, slightly long as vein cuqu1 (2-SR) (Figs. 4D, 6D, widened towards apex, 1.8 times as long as 14D). …………………………………………4 its apical width, striate (Fig. 14B). - First flagellar segment 4.7–5.3 times as Ovipositor sheath 0.8 times as long as first long as its maximum length (Fig. 7D). Vein tergite, 0.3 times as long as metasoma, 0.6 r2 (3-SR) 1.9–2.0 times as long as vein times as long as hind femur, 0.1 times as cuqu1 (2-SR) (Fig. 8C). – Eye in lateral view long as fore wing (Fig. 14C). as wide as temple medially (Fig. 7E). Hind Colour. Body, antenna, and pterostigma femur 4.0–4.1 times as long as its maximum brown. Mandibles and legs yellowish width (Fig. 8B). First metasomal tergite 2.5 brown. Wings hyaline. times as long as its apical width (Fig. 8A). Variation. Fore wing length 3.0–3.1 mm; Body length 1.9 mm. ….A. insolita (Tobias) hind wing length 2.2–2.4 mm. First flagellar 4 (3). Eye in lateral view 0.7–0.8 times as segment 3.2–3.3 times as long as its wide as temple medially (Figs. 3E, 13E). maximum width. Hind femur 4.2–4.3 times Posterior mesopleural furrow entirely as long as its maximum width. crenulate (Figs. 3E, 13E). Mandible 1.3–1.4 Male. Unknown. times as long as its maximum width (Figs. 3C, 13C). First metasomal tergite 1.8–2.0 Comparative diagnosis. This species is times as long as its apical width (Figs. 4B, similar to A. delicata Fischer, 1973; 14B). Vein r2 (3-SR) 2.3–2.5 times as long as differences between both species are shown vein cuqu1 (2-SR) (Figs. 4D, 14D). …….… 5 after the description of the last species. - Eye in lateral view as wide as temple Distribution. Denmark, England, Finland, medially (Fig. 5E). Posterior mesopleural Sweden (Yu et al. 2012; Broad et al. 2016; furrow crenulate in upper half, smooth in Peris-Felipo et al. 2016b, Koponen et al. lower part (Fig. 5E). Mandible 1.8 times as 2016), Iran (new record). long as its maximum width (Fig. 5C). First

metasomal tergite 2.4–2.5 times as long as Key to the Western Asian species of Aspilota its apical width (Fig. 6B). Vein r2 (3-SR) 2.9 1. Propodeum with pentagonal areola times as long as vein cuqu1 (2-SR) (Fig. (Figs. 4A, 6A, 8A, 10A, 14A). ……………...2 6D). Body length 1.5–1.6 mm. ……………… - Propodeum without pentagonal areola ………………………….A. flagimilis Fischer (Figs. 2A, 12A). …………………………..….6 5 (4). First flagellar segment 3.2–3.3 times 2 (1). Eye in lateral view 0.7–1.0 times as as long as its maximum width (Fig. 13D). wide as temple medially. ………………….3 Hind femur 4.2–4.3 times as long as its - Eye in lateral view 1.7 times as wide as maximum width (Fig. 14C). Face 1.5 times temple medially (Fig. 9B). – First flagellar as wide as high (Fig. 13B). Clypeus 2.3 segment 3.3 times as long as its maximum times as wide as high (Fig. 13B). Body width (Fig. 9D). Hind femur 4.0 times as length 2.5 mm. ………A. nidicola Hedqvist long as its maximum width (Fig. 10E). First - First flagellar segment 4.0 times as long as metasomal tergite 2.6 times as long as its its maximum width (Fig. 3D). Hind femur apical width (Fig. 10D). Body length 1.8 4.7–4.8 times as long as its maximum width mm. ………..…A. isfahanensis Peris-Felipo (Fig. 4B). Face 1.8 times as wide as high 3 (2). First flagellar segment 3.3–4.2 times (Fig. 3B). Clypeus 2.7 times as wide as high as long as its maximum length (Figs. 3D, (Fig. 3B). Body length 1.6–1.8 mm. ……….. 5D, 13D). Vein r2 (3-SR) 2.3–2.5 times as ………………………..… A. delicata Fischer

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6 (1). Precoxal sulcus not reaching anterior Aspilota species are associated with humid and posterior margins of mesopleuron (Fig. habitats and ephemeral substrates, which 1E). First flagellar segment 3.3 times as are not common in the studied area. The long as its maximum width (Fig. 1D). Hind similar regions (mountains and valleys of femur 4.3–4.5 times as long as its maximum rivers) of northern Iran and eastern width (Fig. 2C). First metasomal tergite Mediterranean Basin have not 1.4–1.5 times as long as its apical width appropriately investigated in this respect. (Fig. 2B). Clypeus 2.1 times as wide as high Further taxonomic studies in these (Fig. 1B). Body length 2.0–2.1 mm. territories will reveal the occurrence of ………… A. alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod, other Aspilota species. Rakhshani & Talebi - Precoxal sulcus reaching anterior and Acknowledgments posterior margins of mesopleuron (Fig. We want to thank specially Dominique 11F). First flagellar segment 3.7–3.8 times as Zimmermann, Manuela Vizek and long as its maximum width (Fig. 11E). Maximilian Fischer (Naturhistorisches Hind femur 3.5 times as long as its Museum, Wien, Austria) for their kindness maximum width (Fig. 12D). First metasomal and the facilities provided during our stay in tergite 1.8–1.9 times as long as its apical Wien, Isabelle Zürcher-Pfander, Matthias width (Fig. 12C). Clypeus 2.6 times as wide Borer and Daniel Burckhardt (Natur- as high (Fig. 11C). Body length 1.5–1.8 mm. historisches Museum Basel, Switzerland) …………………….A. latitemporata Fischer for their kindness and help during our work with photosystem in the Museum of Discussion Basel and Mrs Elham Nader, who kindly provided some specimens collected from Western Asian area includes the territories Isfahan province. The contribution by E. of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Rakhshani is supported by the grant No. Iraq, countries of South Caucasus (Georgia, 89-9198 of the University of Zabol. The Armenia, Azerbaijan), Arabian Peninsula present work was supported by grants for and Iran. Only three Aspilota species have the last author given by the Russian been already recorded from this area Foundation for Basic Research (project Nos (Fischer et al. 2011; Khajeh et al. 2014; Peris- Felipo et al. 2016a). Four other species are 15–29–02466 and 16–04–00197) and the newly recorded in our studies from Iran, Russian State Research Project No. which has been considered as cross-road 01201351189. between East and West Palaearctic regions. References Two species, Aspilota alfalfae and Aspilota isfahanensis, were recently described from Belokobylskij, S.A. 2005. Eastern Palaearctic Iran and not recovered from other species of parasitic wasps of the genus countries, while the majority of species are Aspilota Forster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, mainly distributed in the Europe (Yu et al., Alysiinae). Species with developed mesoscutal pit. Entomological Review, 85 (6): 2012). Lacking the special collections of the 675–701. Alysiinae material in the western Asian countries can be the main reason for the Belokobylskij S.A. and Tobias V.I. 2007. Fam. Braconidae. Subfam. Alysiinae. Group of lower number of known Aspilota species. genera closed to Aspilota. In: Lelej A.S. (Ed.). On the other hand, according to the Key to of the Russian Far East. biology of Alysiini (Wharton, 1984), the Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera.

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ﻓﺮاﻧﺴﻴﺴﻜﻮ ژاوﻳﺮ ﭘﺮﻳﺲ-ﻓﻴﻠﻴﭙﻮ1*، ﻋﻠﻲ ﻋﺎﻣﺮي2، اﺣﺴﺎن رﺧﺸﺎﻧﻲ3 و ﺳﺮﮔﺌﻲ آﻟﻜﺲ ﺑﻠﻮﻛﻮﺑﻴﻠﺴﻜﻲ4

1 ﺑﻠﻴﭽﺴﺘﺮاس ch- 4058 ،15، ﺑﺎزل، ﺳﻮﻳﻴﺲ 2 ﮔﺮوه ﺣﺸﺮهﺷﻨﺎﺳﻲ، داﻧﺸﻜﺪه ﻛﺸﺎورزي، داﻧﺸﮕﺎه ﺗﺮﺑﻴﺖ ﻣﺪرس 3 ﮔﺮوه ﮔﻴﺎهﭘﺰﺷﻜﻲ، داﻧﺸﻜﺪه ﻛﺸﺎورزي، داﻧﺸﮕﺎه زاﺑﻞ، اﻳﺮان 4 اﻧﺴﺘﻴﺘﻮي ﺟﺎﻧﻮرﺷﻨﺎﺳﻲ، آﻛﺎدﻣﻲ ﻋﻠﻮم روﺳﻴﻪ، ﺳﻦﭘﺘﺮزﺑﻮرگ، روﺳﻴﻪ؛ اﻧﺴﺘﻴﺘﻮ و ﻣﻮزه ﺟﺎﻧﻮري ﺷﻨﺎﺳﻲ آﻛﺎدﻣﻲ ﻋﻠﻮم ﻟﻬﺴﺘﺎن، ورﺷﻮ، ﻟﻬﺴﺘﺎن * ﭘﺴﺖ اﻟﻜﺘﺮوﻧﻴﻜﻲ ﻧﻮﻳﺴﻨﺪه ﻣﺴﺌﻮل ﻣﻜﺎﺗﺒﻪ: [email protected] ﺗﺎرﻳﺦ درﻳﺎﻓﺖ: 11 ﻣﺮداد 1395، ﺗﺎرﻳﺦ ﭘﺬﻳﺮش: 25 ﻣﺮداد 1395، ﺗﺎرﻳﺦ اﻧﺘﺸﺎر: 26 ﻣﺮداد 1395

ﭼﻜﻴـﺪه: ﻧﺘـﺎﻳﺞ ﻳﺎﻓﺘـﻪﻫﺎي ﺟﺪﻳـﺪ در ﺧﺼـﻮص ﺟـﻨﺲ Aspilota Foerster, 1863 (Braconidae: Alysiinae) در ﻣﻨﻄﻘﻪ ﻏﺮب آﺳﻴﺎ اراﻳﻪ ﺷـﺪ. ﭼﻬـﺎر ﮔﻮﻧـﻪ ﺷـﺎﻣﻞ .A A. latitemporata ،A. insolita (Tobias, 1962) ،flagimilis Fischer, 1966 Fischer, 1976 و A. nidicola Hedqvist, 1972 ﺑـﺮاي اوﻟـﻴﻦ ﺑـﺎر از اﻳـﺮان ﮔـﺰارش ﻣﻲﺷـﻮﻧﺪ. ﺗﻮﺻـﻴﻒ ﻣﺠـﺪد ﮔﻮﻧـﻪﻫﺎي ,Aspilota alfalfae Fischer, Lashkari Bod A. ،A. flagimilis ،A. delicata Fischer, 1973 ،Rakhshani & Talebi, 2011 A. latitemporata ،insolita و A. nidicola ﺑﻪ ﺻﻮرت ﻣﺼﻮر اراﻳﻪ ﺷﺪ. ﻛﻠﻴﺪ ﺷﻨﺎﺳـﺎﻳﻲ ﺑﺮاي ﮔﻮﻧﻪﻫﺎي ﻣﺘﻌﻠﻖ ﺑﻪ ﺟﻨﺲ Aspilota در ﻏﺮب آﺳﻴﺎ اراﻳﻪ ﺷﺪ.

واژﮔﺎن ﻛﻠﻴـﺪي: ﭘﺎرازﻳﺘﻮﻳﻴـﺪﻫﺎي دوﺑـﺎﻻن، Aspilota ،Alysiinae، ﻏـﺮب آﺳـﻴﺎ، اﻳـﺮان، ﺗﻮﺻﻴﻒ ﻣﺠﺪد، ﻛﻠﻴﺪ ﺷﻨﺎﺳﺎﻳﻲ.