Study on the genus Triaspis Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Brachistinae) in Northern Iran, with two new records

Pirouzeh, Fatemeh Zahra; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Farahani, Samira

Study on the genus Triaspis Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Brachistinae) in Northern Iran, with two new records

Authors

Fatemeh Zahra Pirouzeh ¹

Ali Asghar Talebi ¹

Samira Farahani ²

¹ Department of Agricultural Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, 14115-336, Tehran, I.R. Iran

² Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, I. R. Iran.

Abstract

In the present work, occurrence of the genus Triaspis Haliday, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Brachistinae) is taxonomically surveyed. The study was conducted in the North of Iran during 2010−2011. Six species were collected and identified: Triaspis armeniaca Tobias, 1976; T. caudate (Nees, 1816); T. complanellae (Hartig, 1847); T. obscurella (Nees, 1816); T. pallipes (Nees, 1816); T. thoracica (Curtis, 1860), of which two species, T. armeniaca and T. caudata are recorded for the first time for the Iranian fauna. Diagnostic and geographical distribution are provided.

Graphical Abstract

Keywords

Braconidae

Brachistinae

Triaspis

new records

Iran

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