Subfamily Alysiinae Leach, 1815 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran: new records and updated list

Cortés, Elena; Ameri, Ali; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Rakhshani, Ehsan; Peris Felipo, Francisco Javier

Subfamily Alysiinae Leach, 1815 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran: new records and updated list

Authors

Elena Cortés ¹

Ali Ameri ²

Ali Asghar Talebi ²

Ehsan Rakhshani ³

Francisco Javier Peris Felipo ⁴

¹ Fernando el Católico, 7, 1A, CP-03804, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain

² Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115–336, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, I.R. Iran

⁴ Bleichestrasse 15, CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

The subfamily Alysiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) is one of the most peculiar and diverse endoparasitoids of the family Braconidae. A sampling survey was done in different parts of Iran, mainly in South, Central and South Eastern provinces. Fifteen species are recorded for the first time from Iran. They were belonging to tribe Alysiini (Dinotrema amparoae Peris-Felipo, 2013; D. borzhomii Tobias, 2004; D. dimorpha (Fischer, 1976); D. perlustrandum (Fischer, 1973); D. sinecarinum (Fischer, 1993); D. tauricum (Telenga, 1935); Orthostigma longicorne Konigsmann, 1969; Phaenocarpa bicolor (Foerster, 1863); P. carinthiaca Fischer, 1975 and Synaldis maxima Fischer, 1972) and Dacnusini (Chorebus melanophytobiae Griffiths, 1968; C. thusa (Nixon, 1937); Dacnusa areolaris (Nees, 1811); D. aquilegiae Marshall, 1896 and D. metula (Nixon, 1954)). List of Iranian Alysiinae including 108 species is also presented.

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Keywords

Alysiinae

updated list

new records

Iran

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