New finding in Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from north of Iran

Dolati, Sana; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Farahani, Samira; Khayrandish, Mohammad

doi:10.52547/jibs.4.3.163

New finding in Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from north of Iran

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

Sana Dolati ¹

Ali Asghar Talebi ¹

Samira Farahani ²

Mohammad Khayrandish ³

¹ Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Iran

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

³ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

10.52547/jibs.4.3.163

Abstract

The fauna of the subfamily Opiinae was studied in northern parts of Iran. A total of eight species including Biosteres rusticus (Haliday, 1837), Phaedrotoma depeculator Foerster, 1862, Phaedrotoma exigua (Wesmael, 1835), Phaedrotoma pulchriventris (Fischer, 1958), Phaedrotoma variegatus (Szepligeti, 1896), Xynobius curtifemur (Fischer, 1961), Xynobius caelatus (Haliday, 1837), and Utetes rotundiventris (Thomson, 1895) were identified of which the four last species are reported for the first time from Iran. A key for identification of the collected species as well as the general distribution of each species either in the world or within Iran has been provided.

Graphical Abstract

New finding in Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from north of Iran

Keywords

fauna

Braconidae

Opiinae

Iran

Malaise trap

20.1001.1.24238112.2018.4.3.6.9

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