A new species of Holotachysphex de Beaumont, 1940 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) from Iran with identification key to species

Abstract

Holotachysphex iraniensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Crabronidae) from southern Iran is described. A revised key to the world species of Holotachysphex is provided. A red form of H. mochii from Jordan is described.

New records of the digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) from Iran

“…The faunistic and taxonomic papers reporting data on the family Crabronidae in Iran increased rapidly through last years (Atbaei et al, 2015;Rezaei & Fallahzadeh, 2015;Schmid-Egger et al, 2016). However, this fauna is relatively poorly known and possibly very rich.…”

Digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Spheciformes: Crabronidae) of Kerman province, Southeastern Iran

“…Iranian Spheciformes have been studied by many researchers (Morice, 1921;Gussakovskij, 1933;de Beaumont, 1957de Beaumont, ,1970Pulawski, 1971Pulawski, , 1984Pulawski, , 1992Pulawski, , 2007Dollfuss, 2006Dollfuss, , 2008Esmaili & Rastegar, 1974;Ebrahimi, 1993Ebrahimi, , 2000Ebrahimi, , 2005Ebrahimi, , 2008Ghazi-Soltani et al, 2009, 2010a, 2010b, 2010cRezaei & Fallahzadeh, 2015;Atbaei et al, 2015;Jahantigh et al, 2017;Ghahari, 2018;Schmid-Egger, 2004, Schmid-Egger et al, 2016Sadeghi et al, 2016Sadeghi et al, , 2018aSadeghi et al, , 2018bSadeghi et al, , 2019Fallahzadeh et al, 2006Fallahzadeh et al, , 2009Fallahzadeh et al, , 2018Khosroabadi et al, 2019;…”

Additions to the knowledge of the digger wasp (Hymenoptera: Spheciformes: Crabronidae) fauna in the Fars Province of Iran

“…The Iranian digger wasps fauna is receiving an increasing interest in the past two decades, compensating for the long dated lack of knowledge (e.g. Ebrahimi, 2000aEbrahimi, , 2000bEbrahimi, , 2005Ebrahimi, , 2008Ebrahimi, , 2014Dollfuss, 2006Dollfuss, , 2008Schmid-Egger, 2004;Fallahzadeh et al, 2006Fallahzadeh et al, , 2009Fallahzadeh et al, , 2018Pulawski, 2007;Atbaei et al, 2015;Rezaei & Fallahzadeh, 2015;Schmid-Egger et al, 2016;Sadeghi et al, 2016Sadeghi et al, , 2018Khosroabadi et al, 2018). Recently, Jahantigh et al (2017) listed 315 species of Crabronidae in 56 genera and 6 subfamilies from Iran.…”