J Insect Biodivers Syst 02(1): 155–166 First Online JOURNAL OF INSECT BIODIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS Research Article http://jibs.modares.ac.ir http://zoobank.org/References/AABD72DE-6C3B-41A9-9E46-56B6015E6325 Fauna of chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Chalcididae) in Hormozgan province, southern Iran Tahereh Tavakoli Roodi1, Majid Fallahzadeh1* and Hossien Lotfalizadeh2 1 Department of Entomology, Jahrom branch, Islamic Azad University, Jahrom, Iran. 2 Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tabriz, Iran ABSTRACT. This paper provides data on distribution of 13 chalcid wasp species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) belonging to 9 genera and Received: 30 June, 2016 three subfamilies Chalcidinae, Dirhininae and Haltichellinae from Hormozgan province, southern Iran. All collected species are new records for the province. Accepted: Two species Dirhinus excavatus Dalman, 1818 and Hockeria bifasciata Walker, 13 July, 2016 1834 are recorded from Iran for the first time. In the present study, D. excavatus Published: is a new species record for the Palaearctic region. An updated list of all known 13 July, 2016 species of Chalcididae from Iran is also included. Subject Editor: George Japoshvili Key words: Chalcididae, Hymenoptera, Iran, Fauna, Distribution, Malaise trap Citation: Tavakoli Roodi, T., Fallahzadeh, M. and Lotfalizadeh, H. 2016. Fauna of chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Chalcididae) in Hormozgan province, southern Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2(1): 155–166. Introduction The Chalcididae are a moderately specious Coleoptera, Neuroptera and Strepsiptera family of parasitic wasps, with over 1469 (Bouček 1952; Narendran 1986; Delvare nominal species in about 90 genera, occur and Bouček 1992; Noyes 2016). worldwide but mainly in the tropics The first information on Chalcididae (Aguiar et al. 2013). In the Palaearctic from Iran was published by Masi (1924), region, there are more than 262 described who described two new species. In the species under 34 genera (Noyes 2016). following years, only a few species of this Members of this family have a very diverse family were reported from the country biology. Some species are internal and (Bouček 1952, 1956, Nikol'skaya 1952, external primary parasitoids while several 1960). Recently, Delvare et al. (2011) species are hyperparasitoids on a wide described three new species from Iran. range of other insects (Habu 1960; Later, Rajabi et al. (2011) and Lotfalizadeh Narendran 1986; Fry 1989; Delvare and et al. (2012) provided new information on Bouček 1992; Noyes 2016).The host range the Iranian chalcidid fauna together with of the chalcidid wasps is diverse and new data on the hosts of the Chalcididae. consist of species classified at least six insect Furthermore, Kazemi and Lotfalizadeh orders: Lepidoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, (2014), Lotfalizadeh (2014), Lotfalizadeh Corresponding author: Majid Fallahzadeh, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2016, Tavakoli Roodi 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. 156 Chacid wasps in southern Iran and Jafari-Nadushan (2015) and Moravvej et Haltichellinae are recorded from Hormozgan al. (2016) added some new records from province, southern Iran. The subfamilies, Iran. However, the chalcids fauna of Iran is genera and species are listed in alphabetic still poorly studied. order. According to the literature, no Chalcid- idae have been recorded from Hormozgan Chalcididae: Chalcidinae province. The aim of present study was to Genus Brachymeria Westwood, 1829 increase of our knowledge regarding Brachymeria podagrica (Fabricius, 1787) Iranian chalcid wasps of the family Material examined: 1♀, Hormozgan Chalcididae from southern Iran. province, Roodan (Band e Mola), 27º24'N, 57º09'E, 16.vi.2013, in Lime garden, leg. T. Material and methods Tavakoli; 1♀, Hormozgan province, Roodan The specimens were collected using five (SarKahnan), 27º25'N, 57º07'E, 09.vii.2013, in standard Malaise traps in different locations mixed Lime and Mango garden, leg. T. in Hormozgan province, Iran during year Tavakoli; 1♀, 18.vii.2013, same data 2013. Hormozgan province covers the General distribution: Cosmopolitan (Noyes surface of about 70,697 km², is located in the 2016). in the south of Iran and border of Persian Comments: Brachymeria is a worldwide, Gulf. The province is primarily mountainous, large genus contains about 308 described consisting of the southern tip of the Zagros species (Noyes 2016) with many parasitoid mountain range. Hormozgan has a tropical species of Lepidoptera which are often humid climate, with summer temperatures important pest on various fruit and forest very frequently above 49°C. There is very trees and other economic important trees little precipitation year round. (Burks 1960; Delvare et al. 2011). Recently, The identifications were mainly carried Brachymeria ceratoniae Delvare, 2011 was out using available keys (Masi 1924, 1929a,b, described as parasitoid of Apomyelois 1932, Nikol’skaya 1952, Bouček 1952, 1956, ceratoniae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), the 1988, Habu 1960, Steffan 1976, Bouček and economic important pest of carob tree, Narendran 1981). The photographs were Ceratonia siliqua (Fabaceae) from Iran taken using a Nikon 990 camera mounted (Delvare et al. 2011). In Iran, B. podagrica on a Nikon SMZ-2T stereomicroscope, and was already collected by sweep net on were processed using Adobe Photoshop. Fabaceae in Kerman province (Rajabi et al. The voucher specimens are deposited in 2011). Department of Entomology, Jahrom Branch, Genus Chalcis Fabricius, 1787 Islamic Azad University, Jahrom, Iran Chalcis sispes (Linnaeus, 1761) (JIAU) and Department of Plant Protection, Material examined: 1♀, Hormozgan Agricultural and Natural Resources province, Roodan (SarKahnan), 27º25'N, Research of East-Azarbaijan province, 57º07'E, 04.vi.2013, in mixed Lime and Tabriz. The taxonomy and distributional Mango garden, leg. T. Tavakoli; 1♀, data were adapted from Noyes (2016). 16.vi.2013, same data; 1♂, Hormozgan province, Roodan (Band e Mola), 27º25'N, Results 57º09'E, 16.vi.2013, in Lime garden, leg. T. In the present study, a total of 36 specimens Tavakoli. from 13 species in nine genera and three General distribution: Palaearctic (Noyes, subfamilies Chalcidinae, Dirhininae and 2016). Tavakoli Roodi et al 157 Comments: The genus Chalcis includes evidently longer than petiole, minutely more than 60 known species that only 13 punctate on dorsum, setae on head and on species have been reported from Palaearctic dorsum of thorax brass-yellow; wings region (Noyes 2016). Within Chalcis, only hardly with tined greyish yellow (Husain two species, C. biguttata Spinola, 1808 and C. and Agarwal 1981) (Figs.1–4). sispes have hitherto been reported from Iran Until now, the Dirhinus species recorded (Lotfalizadeh et al. 2012). Chalcis sispes is a from Iran were D. bakeri (Crawford, 1914); primary parasitoid of some species of D. hesperidum (Rossi, 1790); D. himalayanus Stratiomyiidae (Diptera: Stratiomyomopha) Westwood, 1836 and D. wohlfahrtiae Ferrière, (Noyes 2016). 1935 (Rajabiet al. 2011; Lotfalizadeh et al. 2012; Moravvej et al. 2016). Chalcididae: Dirhininae Genus Dirhinus Dalman, 1818 Chalcididae: Haltichellinae Dirhinus excavatus Dalman, 1818 Genus Antrocephalus Kirby, 1883 Material examined: 1♀, Hormozgan Antrocephalus hypsopygiae Masi, 1928 province, Roodan (SarKahnan), 27º25'N, Material examined: 1♀, Hormozgan 57º07'E, 18.vii.2013, in mixed Lime and province, Roodan (SarKahnan), 27º25'N, Mango garden, leg. T. Tavakoli 57º07'E, 08.vi.2013, in mixed Lime and General distribution: Afrotropical (Eritrea, Mango garden, leg. T. Tavakoli; 1♂, Kenya, Senegal, Sierra Leone), Oriental Hormozgan province, Roodan (Band e (India) (Noyes, 2016). New for the Iranian Mola), 27º25'N, 57º09'E, 16.vi.2013, in Lime fauna. garden, leg. T. Tavakoli; 1♂, 24.vi.2013, same Comments: The genus Dirhinus is a data,1♀, Hormozgan province, Roodan moderate and cosmopolitan genus of the (SarKahnan), 27º24'N, 57º07'E, 26.vi.2013, in tribe Dirhinini that currently consists of over mixed Lime and Mango garden, leg. T. 62 nominal species (Bouček and Narendran Tavakoli. 1981; Noyes 2016). Bouček and Narendran General distribution: Palaearctic (Lotfali- (1981) reviewed and revised Indian species zadeh et al. 2012; Noyes 2016) of this genus. The majority of species Comments: The genus Antrocephalus with appears to be associated with dipteran more than 120 described species that most families (Habu 1960; Noyes 2016). species are distributed in Palaearctic. The Dirhinus excavatus is considered a primary main hosts are moth families such as parasitoid of Stomorhina lunata (Diptera: Tortricidae, Pyralidae and Crambidae Calliphoridae), Pyrausta machaeralis and (Noyes 2016). Sylepta derogata (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and In Iran, Antrocephalus hypsopygiae is Hersecon volvuli (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) known from Kerman province (south- (see Noyes 2016). It was already reported as eastern Iran) and in a rice field infested by hyperparasitiod of Drino solennis and Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lepidoptera: Sturmiopsis parasitica (Diptera: Tachinidae) Crambidae) and Naranga aenescens Moore and Phanerotoma hendecasisella