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Review of Iranian Eupelmidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with Five New Records J Insect Biodivers Syst 02(2): 181–192 First Online JOURNAL OF INSECT BIODIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS Research Article http://jibs.modares.ac.ir http://zoobank.org/References/50AB8DA8-04C2-4F47-8082-3844BCEE07FF Review of Iranian Eupelmidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with five new records Hossein Lotfalizadeh1* and Leila Ghadirzadeh2 1 Department of Plant Protection, Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of East-Azarbaijan, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran 2 Department of Plant Protection, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran. ABSTRACT. Eupelmidae of Iran are revised based on collected material mainly from the northwest and accessible published data. This family in Iran includes 31 species in two subfamilies (Calosotinae and Eupelminae) and seven genera Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859 (four species), Arachnophaga Received: 03 June 2016 Ashmead, 1896 (one species), Brasema Cameron, 1884 (one species), Calosota Curtis, 1836 (one species), Calymmochilus Masi, 1919 (one species), Eupelmus Accepted: 25 June 2016 Dalman, 1820 (22 species) and Eusandalum Ratzeburg, 1852 (one species). The genus Calymmochilus and four species Calymmochilus dispar Bouček & Published: 25 June 2016 Andriescu, 1967; Eupelmus pini Taylor, 1927; E. splendens Giraud, 1872 and E. vindex Erdös, 1955 are new records for Iran. Subject Editor: Ehsan Rakhshani Key words: Calosotinae, Eupelminae, Fauna, Parasitoids, Iran Citation: Lotfalizadeh, H. and Ghadirzadeh, L. 2016. Review of Iranian Eupelmidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with some new records. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2(2): 181–192. Introduction Eupelmidae including three subfamilies (1989), and world genera of Eupelminae by Calosotinae, Neanastatinae and Eupelminae, Gibson (1995). Recently, Al Khatib et al. have more than 900 species in 51 genera (2015) studied urozonus-group of Eupelmus worldwide (Noyes 2015). Only 10 species in the Palaearctic region. Most recently, in three genera have been reported from Gibson and Fusu (2016) revised Euplemus Iran (Fallahzadeh et al. 2008; Noyes 2015). species in the Palaearctic region. Substantial contributions to knowledge of These wasps are primary or secondary Iranian Eupelmidae were made by Kalina parasitoids and ecto or endoparasitoids of (1981b, 1988) who described some species, different orders of insects (Gibson 1995). Lotfalizadeh et al. (2006, 2012) and Malaise or pan traps and rearing from Mohammadi et al. (2011) who reared hosts are the best method for collecting specimens from galls of Diplolepis fructuum members of this family (Gibson 1989, 1995). (Rübsaamen, 1882) (Cynipidae) on Rosa Keys to world genera of Calosotinae and canina, Fallahzadeh et al. (2008) who Neanastatinae are provided by Gibson reared specimens from Bellatella germanica Corresponding author: Hossein Lotfalizadeh, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2016, Lotfalizadeh and Ghadirzadeh. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 182 Review of Iranian Eupelmidae (L.) (Blattaria: Blattellidae), Lotfalizadeh Subfamily Calosotinae and Khalghani (2008) who reported I- Genus: Calosota Curtis, 1836 hymenopterous parasitoids of xylophagus 1-Calosota metallica (Gahan, 1922) beetles, Mahdavi and Madjdzadeh (2013) Material examined: Iran, East-Azarbaijan who reared specimens from Cynipidae province, Khosroshah, Agricultural Research (Hymenoptera), Lotfalizadeh and Hashemi Station, 1346 m, N 37º58'28" E 46º02'55", (2015) who reared parasitoids of Oxystoma vii.2012, H. Lotfalizadeh (1♀). ochropus (Germar), and Ghadirzadeh et al. This species was reported from Iran without (2016) who reported Brasema stenus exact locality (Gibson 2010) but it was (Bouček). collected from northwest of Iran in a Our general collecting in the northwest of Malaise trap. It is widely distributed in the Iran has contributed additional information Palaearctic and Nearctic regions as a that is the main aim of the present study. parasitoid of Coleoptera (Scolytidae), Diptera (Cecidomyiidae, Tephritidae), Material and methods Hymenoptera (Eurytomidae), and Lepidoptera (Tortricidae) (Noyes 2015). Specimens were collected by the authors mainly in nature reserves from north- Subfamily Eupelminae western Iran using a standard sweep net, II- Genus: Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859 yellow pan traps, a Malaise trap, and by host rearing during 1996–2015. Several This genus includes four species in Iran. species were obtained from dead wood Bayegan et al. (2013) reported Anastatus inhabited by xylophagous insect larvae, from intrroptus (Nikolskaya 1952) from northern cynipid galls and from other hosts (Table 1). Iran but our recent examination showed that this record is a misidentification. Specimens were preparations based on Noyes (1982). Generic identifications were 2-Anastatus bifasciatus Geoffroy, 1785 made using Peck et al. (1964), Medvedev (1988) and Gibson (1995), and specific Material examined: Iran, East-Azarbaijan identification using all the available keys province, Khosroshah, Agricultural and descriptions (Kalina 1981a,b, 1988; Research Station, 1346 m, N 37º58'28" E Askew and Nieves-Aldrey 2000, 2004; 46º02'55", 6.ix.2014, H. Lotfalizadeh, Gibson 1989, 1995, 2010; Gibson and Fusu Malaise trap (1♀). 2016). Specimens are deposited in the This species has been reported on eggs insect collection of the Department of of Eurygaster integriceps Puton (Hem.: Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Research Scutelleridae) and an unknown moth Center for Agriculture and Natural (Lepidoptera) (Iranipour et al. 1998). It is Resources, Tabriz, Iran. widely distributed in the Palaearctic region, North Africa, US (Noyes 2015), Results and Iran (Iranipour et al. 1998). Based on examination of 125 specimens, 3- Anastatus dlabolai Kalina, 1981 17 species were identified from our Kalina (1981a) described this species based material. Previously reported species from on collected specimens from Kerman Iran were also added to this list for a total province, Deh-Bakri. It may be endemic to of 30 species in two subfamilies: Iran. Mehrnejad reported this species as Calosotinae (one species) and Eupelminae parasitoid of Kermania pistaciella Amsel (29 species). (Lepidoptera: Tineidae). Lotfalizadeh and Ghadirzadeh 183 4- Anastatus tenuipes Bolivar y Pieltian, 1925 1♂), 18.vii.2010(7♀♀ & 2♂♂), 21.vii.2010 Material examined: Iran, East-Azarbaijan (2♀♀ & 1♂), 2.viii.2010 (13♀♀ & 1♂). province, Khosroshah, Agricultural In the Palaearctic region, Brasema stenos Research Station, 1346 m, N 37º58'28" & E known from some European countries 46º02'55", Malaise trap, 8.ix.2014, H. (Noyes 2015) and the Middle East Lotfalizadeh (3♀♀). Sistan & Baluchestan (Ghadirzadeh et al. 2016). Two hymenopterous province, Zabol, Hirmand, 6.iv.2011, ex families, Cynipidae and Eurytomidae, have Hyles linenta on Vitis sp., S. Taheri (2♀♀). been recorded as hosts. This species widely distributed in the Afrotropical, Nearctic and Palaearctic V- Genus: Calymmochilus Masi, 1919 regions and has known as a parasitoid of Blattellidae and Blattidae (Noyes 2015). This is first record of the genus from Iran. Our examined specimens were collected This is a small genus, includes 10 nominal from southeast and northwest of Iran as species in the world (Noyes 2015). egg parasitoids of Hyles lineata (Fabricius) 8-Calymmochilus dispar Bouček & Andriescu, (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) on Vitis sp. 1967 Material examined: Iran, East-Azarbaijan 5- Anastatus sp. province, Yam,vii. 2002, H. Lotfalizadeh (1 ♀). Material examined: Iran, East-Azarbaijan This species known from some European province, Khosroshah, Agricultural countries from Spain to Armenia (Noyes Research Station, 1346 m, N 37º 58' 28" E 2015). It is a new record for Iran. 46º 02' 55", 14.ix.2010, H. Lotfalizadeh (1♀). We could identify this species using VI- Genus: Eupelmus Dalman, 1820 current keys. Nine species of Eupelmus were collected. Including the 13 previously reported III-Genus: Arachnophaga Ashmead, 1896 species, there are 21 species in Iran. These 6- Arachnophaga matritensis (Bolivar y species belong to the subgenera Eupelmus Pieltain, 1934) Dalman, 1820 (17 species), Macroneura This species has been reported as Walker, 1837 (4 species), and Episolindelia parasitoid of Kermania pistaciella Amsel Girault, 1914 (1 species). (Lepidoptera: Tineidae) (Mehrnejad, 2008). 9- Eupelmus (Eupelmus) annulatus Nees, 1834 IV-Genus: Brasema Cameron, 1884 Material examined: Iran, Golestan province, This genus with 54 known species (Noyes Aliabad, 1.vii.2013, ex Cynipidae on 2015) includes only one species in Iran Quercus castaneifolia, 36°54'N 54°53'E, (Ghadirzadeh et al. 2016). 140m, A. Gol (3♀♀). 7- Brasema stenus Bouček, 1968 Eupelmus annulatusis widely distributed in Europe, Canada, USA (Noyes 2015) and Material examined: Iran, East-Azarbaijan province, Khosroshah, Agricultural Iran (Gibson, 2011). It is parasitoid of Research Station, 1346 m, N 37º58'28" E Coleoptera (Buprestidae, Curculionidae), 46º02'55", Malaise trap, H. Lotfalizadeh , Hymenoptera (Cynipidae, Diprionidae) and vii.2008 (2♀♀), viii.2008 (3♀♀), 5.viii.2009 Lepidoptera (Lymantriidae, Momphidae, (2♀♀) 16.viii.2009 (2♀♀), 2.x.2009 (3♀♀ & Psychidae, Tortricidae) (Noyes, 2015). 184 Review of Iranian Eupelmidae 10- Eupelmus (Eupelmus) azureus Ratzeburg, Lotfalizadeh et al. (2006) reported this 1844 species as a parasitoid of rose gall wasp,
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