A contribution to the tribe Chelonini Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Cheloninae) of northern Iran, with first records for eight species and an updated check list of Iranian species

Abstract

The tribe Chelonini Foerster (Braconidae: Cheloninae) of northern Iran was studied. The specimens were collected using Malaise traps during 2010 and 2011. A total of 15 species were collected and identified, of which eight species, Ascogaster annularis (Nees, 1816); A. excavata Telenga, 1941; A. grahami Huddleston, 1984; A. kasparyani Tobias, 1976; Chelonus (Chelonus) armeniacus Tobias, 1976; C. (Chelonus) bonellii (Nees, 1816); C. (Chelonus) elongatus Szepligeti, 1898 and C. (Microchelonus) flavipalpis Szepligeti, 1896 are recorded for the first time from Iran. A key for identification of the known species of Chelonini in northern Iran, and an updated checklist of Iranian Chelonini is provided. (© 2013 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

New species and new record of Chelonini (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from western Iran

“…Based on the latest checklist of Iranian Braconidae (Farahani et al, 2016), only scattered records of Chelonini from western Iran (Kordestan, Lorestan, Kermanshah, and Ilam provinces) have been published. Farahani et al (2013Farahani et al ( , 2014 studied the tribe Chelonini and reported 12 species from northern Iran. Currently, 67 species of the subfamily Cheloninae are known from Iran, but many are waiting to be discovered (Farahani et al, 2016), considering the number known from the West Palaearctic region.…”

Adelius aridus (Tobias, 1967) (Hym., Braconidae, Cheloninae) associated with a Tamarix leafminer (Lepidoptera: Nepticulidae), new for Iran

“…comm.). A serie of taxonomic works have been done on the Iranian Cheloninae (Lashkari Bod et al, 2011;Ameri et al, 2012;Farahani et al, 2013Farahani et al, , 2014, but nothing is well documented on Adeliini.…”