Discovery of male of Proconura persica Delvare (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), recently described from Iran

Ehteshami, Fatemeh; Lotfalizadeh, Hossein; Delvare, Gérard

doi:10.52547/jibs.5.2.153

Discovery of male of Proconura persica Delvare (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae), recently described from Iran

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

Fatemeh Ehteshami ¹

Hossein Lotfalizadeh ²

Gérard Delvare ³

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

² Plant Protection Department, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research & Education Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran.

³ INRA, UMR 1062 CBGP, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France.

10.52547/jibs.5.2.153

Abstract

Proconura persica Delvare, 2011 (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) was originally described from Iran. Type materials of this species were include just female specimens. Recently we collected a population of this species from Shiraz in the south of Iran comprising males and females. The previously unknown male of P. persica is described for the first time and diagnostic characters are illustrated to differentiate this species from related species of the genus.

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Keywords

Chalcididae

parasitoid

Carob moth

Pomegranate

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