Fauna in Northern Cyprus, with Twenty Six New Records for the Country

Fauna in Northern Cyprus, with Twenty Six New Records for the Country

J Insect Biodivers Syst 03(4): 319–334 ISSN: 2423-8112 JOURNAL OF INSECT BIODIVERSITY AND SYSTEMATICS Research Article http://jibs.modares.ac.ir http://zoobank.org/References/7AEF0A08-A35B-4489-9F25-0B7A9BE2F83B Taxonomical investigation on Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) fauna in northern Cyprus, with twenty six new records for the country Ahmet Beyarslan1*, Celalettin Gözüaçik2, Mustafa Güllü3 and Ayda Konuksal4 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bitlis Eren University, 13000 Bitlis, Turkey. 2 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Iğdır University, Iğdır, Turkey. 3 Biological Control Research Institute, Adana, Turkey. 4 Agricultural Research Institute, Lefkoşa, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. ABSTRACT. In order to determine Braconidae fauna of Cyprus, adult Received: specimens of Braconidae were collected from different habitats of Northern 25 September, 2017 Cyprus between 2012 and 2016. All specimens were collected in both natural Accepted: vegetation and agricultural areas using sweeping-net. A total of 42 species 21 October, 2017 belonging to 14 genera of Agathidiae, Braconinae, Cheloninae, Doryctinae, Euphorinae, Homolobinae, Opiinae and Rogadinae were reported from the Published: 24 October 2017 Northern Cyprus, of which 26 species are recorded from Cyprus for the first time. Subject Editor: Ehsan Rakhshani Key words: Pentadaktylos, Braconidae, fauna, Cyprus, parasitoid. Citation: Beyarslan, A., Gözüaçik, C., Güllü, M. & Konuksal, A. (2017) Taxonomical investigation on Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) fauna in northern Cyprus, with twenty six new records for the country. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 3 (4), 319–334. Introduction Braconidae is a large family of Hymenoptera, rocks (Fig. 1). The Pentadaktylos (Kyrenia) consisting of 1032 genera and approximately Zone, the northern-most geological zone of 17,963 known species. Thirty seven of 47 Cyprus, is considered to be the southern- subfamilies of the Braconidae are recorded most portion of the Tauro-Diranide Alpine from the west Palaearctic region (Yu et al., Orogenic Zone. The base of the Zone is 2012). The vast majority of the species are mostly composed of a series of allochthonous ectoparasitoids mainly among coleopterous massive and recrystallized limestones, and lepidopterous hosts, although a few dolomites and marbles of Permian– attack Diptera, Hymenoptera-Symphyta Carboniferous to Lower Cretaceous age and possibly Hemiptera (Wang et al., 2010). (between 350–135 Ma). These are stratigra- Cyprus is divided into four geological phically followed by younger autochthonous zones: (a) the Pentadaktylos (Kyrenia) Zone; sedimentary rocks of Upper Cretaceous to (b) the Troodos Zone or Troodos Ophiolite; Middle Mioceneage (67–15 Ma), on which (c) the Mamonia Zone or Complex, and (d) the olderallochthonous formations have been the Zone of autochthonous sedimentary thrust southward (Anonymous, 2004). Corresponding author: Ahmet Beyarslan, E-mail: abeyars@gmail.com Copyright © 2017, Beyarslan 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. 320 Braconidae of northern Cyprus Figure 1. Four geological zones of Cyprus (Anonymous, 2004) The area of this research covers the Doryctinae, Euphorinae, Homolobinae, Pentadaktylos (Kyrenia) Zone and partially Opiinae and Rogadinae were reported the Troodos Zone or Troodos Ophiolite. from Northern Cyprus. Twenty-six species Cyprus islocated in the eastern arerecorded from Cyprus for the first time. Mediterranean basin, and is the third largest (9 251 km2) Mediteraranean island Material and methods after Sicily (25 710 km2) and Sardinia (24 Adult specimens of Braconidae were 090 km2). Cyprus is 70 km from Turkey collected from different habitats of northern (Syria 110 km, Egypt 418 km, and Greece Cyprus by sweepting-nets between 2012 965 km). The Braconidae fauna of Cyprus and 2016. Publications consulted for consists of 124 species. It is similar with65% distributional data include: Fischer (1999), (81 species) of Turkey, 64% (79 species) of Nixon (1986), Papp (1982, 1990, 1998, 1999), Greece, 14.4% (18 species) of Egypt and Shenefelt (1978), Tobias (1986), and Yu et 9.6% (12 species) of Syria (Yu et al., 2012). al. (2012). The following literature was The Braconidae fauna of Cyprus has used for taxonomic examination of the been partially investigated. In Cyprus, material: Matthews (1970), Shaw & there are known 124 species of Braconidae Huddleston (1991), Fischer (1999), according to Terrestrial Arthropods of Achterberg (2003), Marsh & Shaw (2003), Cyprus (Anonymous, 2015). The first study Fischer & Beyarslan (2011, 2012, 2013), of the Braconinae fauna of Cyprus was Beyarslan et al. (2013) and Beyarslan (2014, conducted by Papp (1990) and he worked 2015b). the fauna of Greece and however, he also Information on parasitoids, hosts and identified the Braconids of south Cyprus. general distributions (in terms of We conducted a study on Braconidae fauna zoogeographical region), and parasitoids of in northern Cyprus between 2012 and 2016. the determined species are given according A total of 42 species belonging to 14 genera to Yu et al. (2012). The subgenera and of Agathidinae, Braconinae, Cheloninae, species are listed alphabetically. Known Beyarslan et al. 321 host plants are given in square brackets (Yu 1♂; İskele, wild herb, 28.03.2012, 2♂♂; et al., 2012). All specimens are deposited in Köprülü, wild herb, 01.06.2012, 2♂♂; the collection of the Department of Mehmetcik, wild herb, 31.05.2016, 1♂; Zoology, Bitlis Eren University, Bitlis, Şirinevler, barley, 30.05.2012; 1♂; Taşpınar, Turkey. An asterisk (*) is used within the wheat, 31.05.2012, 2♂♂; Türkmenköy, text for the species that are recorded as barley, 01.07.2012, 2♀♀; Yeşilırmak, barley, new from Cyprus. 01.6.2016, 2♀♀, 2♂♂. Results Hosts: COLEOPTERA, Apionidae: Oxystoma opeticum Bach, 1854; Attelabidae: Attelabus Subfamily: Agathidinae nitens (Scopoli, 1763); Cerambycidae: Genus: Agathis Latreille, 1804 Agapanthia villosoviridescens (De Geer, 1775; *Agathis malvacearum Latreille, 1805 A. violacea (Fabricius, 1775); Anthonomus (Anthonomus) pedicularius (Linnaeus, 1758);A. Material examined: Northern Cyprus- pomorum Linnaeus 1758; A. (A.) sorbi Germar, İnönü, wild herb, 09.04.2015, 1♀; İskele, 1821; Hytoecia coerulescens (Scopoli, 1763) barley, 07.04.2015, 3♂♂. [Anchusasp.]; Curculio salicivorus (Paykull, Hosts: DIPTERA, Tachinidae: Actia 1792); C. crux (Fabricius, 1776); Lixus nudibasisStein, 1924; LEPIDOPTERA, brevirostris Boheman, 1835; L. incanescens Coleophoridae: Coleophora galbulipennella Boheman, 1835 [Atriplex patula hastata]; L. Zeller, 1838 [Silene sp.]; C. graminicolella (Compsolixus) juncii Boheman, 1835; Heinemann, 1876; Gelechiidae: Metzneria Microlarinus lareynii (Jacquelin du Val, 1852); aestivella (Zeller, 1839); M. lappella M. lypriformis (Wollaston, 1861); Sibinia (Linnaeus, 1758) [Arctium minus]; Pexicopia (Sibinia) femoralis Germar, 1824; Rhynchitidae: malvella (Hübner, 1805); Pterophoridae: Rhynchites bacchus (Linnaeus, 1758); DIPTERA, Hellinsia didactylites (Ström, 1783). Agromyzidae: Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard, 1926); HYMENOPTERA, Distribution: Holarctic, Cyprus (new record). Eurytomidae: Tetramesa hyalipennis (Walker, 1832); Tetramesa rossica (Rimsky-Korsakov, Subfamily: Braconinae 1914); Tenthredinidae: Pontania bella Genus: Bracon Fabricius, 1804 (Zaddach, 1876); P. kriechbaumeri Konow, Subgenus: Bracon 1804 s.str. 1901[Salix nigricans]; P. pedunculi (Hartig, *Bracon (Bracon) gusaricus Telenga,1933 1837); P. vesicator (Bremi-Wolf, 1849); P. Material examined: Northern Cyprus - viminalis (Linnaeus, 1758; P. (Eupontania) İskele, barley, 07.04.2015, 4♀♀, 1♂. acutifoliae Zinovjev, 1985; LEPIDOPTERA, Coleophoridae: Coleophora atraphaxidellum Hosts: Unknown. Kuznetzov, 1957; Elachistidae: Parametriotes Distribution: Palaearctic, Cyprus (new record). theae Kuznetsov, 1916; Gelechiidae: Scrobipalpa obsoletella (Fischer von Röslerstamm, 1841); Bracon (Bracon) intercessor Nees, 1834 Sesiidae: Bembecia hungarica (Tomala, 1910); Material examined: Northern Cyprus - Chamaesphecia astatiformis (Herrich-Schaffer, Beşparmak dağları, Taşocağı, wild herb, 1846); Paranthrene tabaniformis (Rottemburg, 08.04.2015, 1♂; Bostancı, wheat, 27.03.2012, 1775); Synanthedon culiciformis (Linnaeus, 2♀♀; Dipkarpaz, Büyük Kumsal, barley, 1758); Tortricidae: Sparganothis pilleriana 07.04.2015, 1♂; Girne, Çatalköy, wild herb, (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775); Ypono- 08.04.2015, 1♂; Göçeri wild herb, meutidae: Argyresthia conjugella Zeller, 1839. 30.05.2012, 1♀; İnönü, barley, 09.04.2015, Distribution: Palaearctic, Cyprus (Papp 1998). 322 Braconidae of northern Cyprus Bracon (Bracon) pectoralis (Wesmael, 1838) Hosts: Unknown. Material examined: Northern Cyprus - Distribution: Western Palaearctic, Cyprus Akdeniz, wheat, 01.06.2016, 2♀♀; Beşparmak (Papp, 1998). dağları, Taşocağı, barley, 08.04.2015, 1♂; Mehmetcik, wild herb, 30.05.2016, 1♀; Subgenus: Glabrobracon Fahringer, 1927 Serdarlı, wild herb, 30.05.2016, 4♀♀; Yeşil köy, *Bracon (Glabrobracon) ahngeri Telenga, 1936 barley, 30.05.2016, 3♀♀, 5♂♂. Material examined: Northern Cyprus - Hosts: COLEOPTERA, Curculionidae: Girne çatal köy, barley, 8.4.2015, 1♀. Larinus flavescens Germar, 1824; DIPTERA, Hosts: Unknown. Tephritidae: Xyphosia miliari (Schrank,

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