Archive of SID J Insect Biodivers Syst 04(1): 13-23 ISSN: 2423-8112 JOURNAL OF INSECT BIODIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS Research Article http://jibs.modares.ac.ir http://zoobank.org/References/4A86A7DF-64D9-4EF4-B875-63CB13059B91 A contribution to the knowledge of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Khuzestan in southwestern Iran Seyed Abbas Moravvej1*, Hossein Lotfalizadeh2 and Parviz Shishehbor1 1 Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran. 2 Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran. Received: ABSTRACT. This contribution reports 15 species of Encyrtidae 20 September, 2017 (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) belonging to 12 genera from Khuzestan province of Iran of which 11 species were determined to species level. Five Accepted: 09 January, 2018 genera and seven species are new for the fauna of Khuzestan province. Three genera viz. Apoleptomastix, Rhopus and Thomsonisca, and three species viz. Published: Apoleptomastix bicoloricornis (Girault, 1915), Leptomastidea bifasciata (Mayr, 1876) 11 January, 2018 and Rhopus nigroclavatus (Ashmead, 1902) are new for the Iranian fauna. Subject Editor: Majid Fallahzadeh Key words: fauna, Iran, Khuzestan, Encyrtidae, new records Citation: Moravvej, S.A., Lotfalizadeh, H. & Shishehbor, P. (2018) A contribution to the study of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Khuzestan in southwestern Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 4 (1), 13–23. Introduction The insect order Hymenoptera contains anterior two-thirds; and linea calva present Downloaded from jibs.modares.ac.ir at 11:25 IRDT on Wednesday April 25th 2018 several superfamilies including Chalcidoidea and distinct in most winged species. They encompassing 23 families, one of which is parasitize various arthropods including a the cosmopolitan Encyrtidae, which wide range of economically important, currently contains ca. 490 genera and ca. particularly agricultural, pests, therefore 4000 species (Noyes, 2017). Members of the some encyrtids have been utilized family Encyrtidae can be distinguished by commercially as significant introduced combination of the following characters: and/or mass-produced bio-controllers in both sexes with mesopleuron very the worldwide biological control programs enlarged, undivided, bulging, often of pests. Various references published on occupying more than half the thorax in morphology, diagnosis, taxonomy and lateral view; mid coxae level with middle identification keys, of which Trjapitsin of mesopleuron in lateral view; mesoscutum (1989) discusses the encyrtid's biology as transverse and without notauli, or with well, and Noyes and Hayat (1994) very shallow and curved ones, never deep additionally reviews the worldwide use of and straight; cercal plates advanced, not at this family in the pest biocontrol programs apex of metasoma and frequently in though now is outdated. Corresponding author: Seyed Abbas Moravvej, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2017, Moravvej et al. 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. www.SID.ir Archive of SID 14 Encyrtidae of Khuzestan province Contrary to 159 encyrtid species listed Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Trjapitzin & from Iran by Fallahzadeh and Japoshvili Triapitsyn, 2008) and Iran in East and West (2017), the encyrtid fauna of Iran, and Azerbaijans, Fars, Guilan, Kerman, Lorestan, particularly, certain provinces including Markazi, North and Razavi Khorassans the southwestern Khuzestan from which, (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili, 2017) and to date, fourteen species of Encyrtidae are Khuzestan (present study) provinces. known, requires much investigation as Cheiloneurus sp.* emphasized by Fallahzadeh et al. (2016). Consequently a survey which was Material examined: 1♀, Aghajari, introduced by Moravvej et al. (2016) was November 2015, by sweeping, leg. S.A. conducted to discover the chalcid fauna of Moravvej: damaged body prevents species Khuzestan province and this contribution determination. announces the collected encyrtid species of Genus Homalotylus Mayr, 1876 this province. Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Noyes, 2010) Material and methods and Iran in Alborz, Ardebil, East Azerbaijan, Fars, Hormozgan, Kermanshah, Lorestan, Material was collected by sweeping and Markazi, Mazandaran, North and Razavi yellow pan trap as explained by Moravvej Khorassans, Khuzestan and Qavin provinces et al. (2016) and host rearing as described (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili, 2017). by Forouzan (2014) and are preserved in vials containing ethanol 75% at the Insect Homalotylus flaminius (Dalman, 1820)* Collection of Chamran University. These Material examined: 1♀, 1♂, Ahwaz, autumn literatures were utilized for determination 2014, by host rearing, leg. A Forouzan. 1♀, of material: Timberlake (1919), Mercet Shush, September 2014, by sweeping, leg. (1921 & 1929), Tachikawa (1956), Kerrich S.A. Moravvej. (1967), Jensen and Sharkov (1989), Noyes Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Noyes, 2017) and Hayat (1994), Anga and Noyes (1999), and Iran in Fars, Kermanshah, Qazvin Noyes (2000), Zhang and Huang (2004), (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili, 2017) and Hayat (2006 & 2009), Trjapitzin (1989), Khuzestan (present study) provinces. Trjapitzin and Triapitsyn (2008), Noyes Downloaded from jibs.modares.ac.ir at 11:25 IRDT on Wednesday April 25th 2018 (2010), Liu et al. (2013) and Wang et al. Host records: Iran: Nephus bipunctatus (2014). (Kugelann) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) on Lactuca serriola L. (Asteraceae) associated Results with Peliococcus kimmericus (Kiritshenko) Fifteen encyrtid species belonging to 12 (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) (Fallahzadeh genera were collected and 11 of which et al., 2006). Worldwide: one species of were determined to species level; 5 and 3 Chrysomelidae and 62 species of genera, and 7 and 5 species are new Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) and 2 species of records for the faunas of Khuzestan and Coccidae and 3 species of Pseudococcidae Iran, respectively. New taxa for Khuzestan, (Hemiptera) (Noyes, 2017). Iran and undescribed species are marked Homalotylus nigricornis Mercet, 1921* with *, ** and ***, respectively. Material examined: 1♀, Ahwaz, autumn Family Encyrtidae Walker 1837 2014, by host rearing, leg. A. Forouzan. Subfamily Encyrtinae Ashmead, 1904 Distribution: Europe, Turkey, ex USSR Genus Cheiloneurus Westwood, 1833* (Noyes, 2017) and Iran in Ardabil www.SID.ir Archive of SID Moravvej et al. 15 (Lotfalizadeh & Ebrahimi, 2001) and Thomsonisca sp.** Khuzestan (present study) provinces. Material examined: 1♀, Khorramshahr, Host records: Iran: Scymnus sp. (Coloptera: May 2015, by yellow pan trap, leg. S.A. Coccinellidae) associated with Aphis Moravvej: damaged body prevents species gossypii (Glover) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) determination. (Lotfalizadeh & Ebrahimi, 2001). Distribution: Iran in Khuzestan province Worldwide: ca. three species of Scymnus (present study). (Noyes, 2017). Genus Trichomasthus Thomson, 1876* Genus Prochiloneurus Silvestri, 1915 Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Noyes, 2010) Distribution: Cosmopolitan (Wang et al., and Iran in Isfahan, Mazandaran 2014) and Iran in Fars, Hormozgan, (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili, 2017) and Kerman, Kermanshah, Khuzestan and Khuzestan (present study) provinces. Markazi provinces (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili, 2017). Trichomasthus albimanus Thomson, 1876* Material examined: 2♀, Karoun city, the Prochiloneurus aegyptiacus (Mercet, 1929) Small Ghazawiyeh, April 2017, by Material examined: 1♀, Ahwaz, autumn sweeping, leg. S.A. Moravvej. 1♀, 2014, by host rearing, leg. A. Forouzan. Howeyzeh, April 2017, by sweeping, leg. Distribution: Africa, Asia, Italy (Noyes, S.A. Moravvej. 2017) and Iran (OILB, 1971) in Fars Distribution: America, Asia, Europe (Noyes, (Hesami & Fallahzadeh, 2004; Fallahzadeh 2017) and Iran in Isfahan (Fallahzadeh & et al., 2007) and Khuzestan provinces Japoshvili, 2017) and Khuzestan (present (Asadeh & Mossadegh, 1991 [as study) provinces. Prochiloneurus indicus Shafee, Alam & Host records: Iran: Coccus hesperidum L. Agarwal, 1975]; Alizadeh et al., 2013). (Coccidae) (Ghahari et al., 2010). Outside: Host records: Iran: Homalotylus quaylei over 20 species of Asterolecaniidae, Coccidae Timberlake (OILB, 1971) and Anagyrus sp. and Eriococcidae (Noyes, 2017). (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae) (Hesami & Fallahzadeh, 2004), hyperparasitoid (as Subfamily Tetracneminae Howard, 1892 Downloaded from jibs.modares.ac.ir at 11:25 IRDT on Wednesday April 25th 2018 Prochiloneurus indicus Shafee, Alam & Genus Aenasius Walker, 1846 Agarwal, 1975) of Nipaecoccus viridis Distribution: Nearly cosmopolitan (Noyes, (Newstead) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) 2000) and Iran in Bushahr, Fars, Hormozgan, on Citrus sp. (Rutaceae) and Morus alba L. Kerman, Kohgiluyeh-va-Boyerahmad and (Moraceae) (Asadeh & Mossadegh, 1991), Khuzestan provinces (Mossadegh et al. 2015). hyperparasitoid of Maconellicoccus hirsutus (Green) (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) on Aenasius arizonensis (Girault, 1915) M. alba L. (Moraceae) (Fallahzadeh et al., 2007). Worldwide: three species of Material examined: 1♀, 1♂, Ahwaz, autumn 2014, by host rearing, leg. A. Forouzan. Coccinellidae, 2 species of Coccidae and 21 species of Pseudococcidae (Noyes, 2017). Distribution: China, India, Pakistan, USA and Iran in Khuzestan, Fars, Hormozgan, Genus Thomsonisca Ghesquière,