Review of the superfamily Evanioidea (Hymenoptera) in Iran with four new records

Lotfalizadeh, Hossein; Masudi-Rad, Soheila; Mehrvar, Ali

doi:10.52547/jibs.3.2.141

Review of the superfamily Evanioidea (Hymenoptera) in Iran with four new records

Authors

Hossein Lotfalizadeh ¹

Soheila Masudi-Rad ²

Ali Mehrvar ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)

² Department of Plant Protection, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

10.52547/jibs.3.2.141

Abstract

The Evanioidea wasp fauna of Iran is reviewed. The study is based on literature as well as collecting research carried out during 2007-2015 in the East and West-Azarbaijan provinces. The total number of species recorded from Iran is 34 including: Aulacidae (Pristaulacus, 4 species), Evaniidae (Evania, 2 species and Brachygaster, one species) and Gasteruptiidae (Gasteruption, 27 species). Four new records from Iran are added: Brachygaster minutus (Olivier) (Evaniidae); Gasteruption goberti (Tournier), G. henseni van Achterberg and G. undulatum (AbeilledePerrin) (Gasteruptiidae).

Graphical Abstract

Review of the superfamily Evanioidea (Hymenoptera) in Iran with four new records

Keywords

fauna

Evanioidea

Aulacidae

Evaniidae

Gasteruptiidae

new record

Iran

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