A survey on the fauna of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) associated with grasslands of Ardabil, and key to species of Homotropus Foerster, 1869 from Iran

Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa; Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa; Mokhtari, Azizollah; Mokhtari, Azizollah; Barahoei, Hossein; Amirinasab, Najmeh; Rakhshani, Ehsan

A survey on the fauna of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) associated with grasslands of Ardabil, and key to species of Homotropus Foerster, 1869 from Iran

Authors

Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam ¹

Azizollah Mokhtari ¹

Hossein Barahoei ²

Najmeh Amirinasab ¹

Ehsan Rakhshani ¹

¹ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, 98615–538, I.R. Iran.

² Agricultural Research Institute, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.

Abstract

A faunistic survey was conducted in Ardabil province (North-western Iran), during spring 2013 to study the ichneumonids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) associated with grasslands in this area. Samplings were carried out by the sweeping net in natural grasslands, neighboring fields and orchards. A total of twelve ichneumonid species belonging to nine genera and five subfamilies were collected and identified. The species were identified as follow: Collyria coxator (Villers, 1789), Diadromus collaris (Gravenhorst, 1829), Diplazon laetatorius (Fabricius, 1781), Diplazon pectoratorius (Gravenhorst, 1829), Homotropus crassicornis (Thomson, 1890), Homotropus elegans (Gravenhorst, 1829), Homotropus signatus (Gravenhorst, 1829), Lysibia nana (Gravenhorst, 1829), Orthocentrus castellanus (Ceballos, 1963), Picrostigeus setiger (Brischke, 1871), Promethes sulcator (Gravenhorst, 1829) and Syrphophilus bizonarius (Gravenhorst, 1829). Homotropus crassicornis is newly recorded for the fauna of Iran. An identification key to the known species of the genus Homotropus Foerster, 1869 from Iran is presented.

Graphical Abstract

A survey on the fauna of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) associated with grasslands of Ardabil, and key to species of Homotropus Foerster, 1869 from Iran

Keywords

Taxonomy

Identification

Key

new record

Diplazontinae

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