Contribution to the fauna and phenological knowledge of high mountains Opiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in Kerman province (Iran)

Safahani, Soheila; Madjdzadeh, Seyed Massoud; Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier

doi:10.52547/jibs.4.2.73

Contribution to the fauna and phenological knowledge of high mountains Opiinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in Kerman province (Iran)

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

Soheila Safahani ¹

Seyed Massoud Madjdzadeh ¹

Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo ²

¹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.

² Bleichestrasse 15, Basel, Switzerland.

10.52547/jibs.4.2.73

Abstract

The present study provides new data about the fauna and phenology of Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) species captured in high mountain areas of Kerman province (South-Eastern Iran). Sampling was carried out from April 2014 to September 2015. In total, 19 species belonging to four genera have been listed of which Opius (Cryptonastes) gracilis Fischer, 1957, Phaedrotoma gafsaensis (Fischer, 1964) and Phaedrotoma scaptomyzae (Fischer, 1967) are recorded for the first time from Iran.

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Keywords

Braconidae

Opiinae

high mountains

parasitoids

Iran

new records

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