A review of Chrysidoidea (Hymenoptera, Aculeata), excluding Chrysididae of Iran

Abstract

Species of four chrysidoid families, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, and Sclerogibbidae that occurred in Iran are reviewed. A total of 54 species within 27 genera from Iran are listed. The family Bethylidae with 34 species belonging to 16 genera was the largest group followed by Dryinidae with 17 species belonging to eight genera. The known Bethylidae species from Iran certainly represent a very small piece of the world fauna, distributed mainly in the Palaearctic region. Of the seventeen species of Dryinidae, the known distribution of ten species is known yet limited to the Palaearctic region, but five species are distributed in the north of the Afrotropical region (Arabian peninsula). The families, Embolemidae and Sclerogibbidae each represented by two and a single species in Iran, respectively. Embolemus huberi Olmi is here recorded from Kirghizstan, Turkey and Turkmenistan for the first time. Until now, no species of the families Plumariidae and Scolebythidae have been recorded from Iran. Despite the importance and diversity of both bethylids and dryinids, it seems that the least attempts have been done to study their fauna in Iran.

Diplazontinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of the West Azarbaijan province with a new record for the Iranian fauna

“…Table 1 and Figure 2 (the distribution map) show the list of Diplazontinae species and the surveyed provinces of Iran. Mazandaran ranks first among the studied Iranian provinces with 15 recorded Diplazontine species (Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2013;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi and Klopfstein, 2015;Bakhtiarynasab et al, 2014), followed by Tehran (12 species) (Masnadi & Jussila, 2008;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2013;Hasanshahi et al, 2014), Guilan (12 species) (Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2013), Ardabil (10 species) (Ghafouri Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2013), Yazd (7 species) (Zarepour et al, 2008(Zarepour et al, , 2009Bakhtiarynasab et al, 2014;Klopfstein, 2014;Habibi et al, 2016) and Kerman (7 species) (Kolarov & Ghahari, 2005;Barahoei et al, 2012;Bakhtiarynasab et al, 2014Bakhtiarynasab et al, , 2015Mohebban et al, 2016) (Table 1). While, seven provinces including Chaharmahal & Bakhtiyari, North Khorasan, East Azarbaijan, Golestan, Khuzestan, Markazi and Kohgilouyeh & Boyerahmad are represented by only a single species of Diplazontinae, and no species have been so far reported from the Kurdestan, Zanjan, Hamadan, Kermanshah, Lorestan, Ilam, Qom, Semnan, South Khorasan, Bushehr, and Hormozgan provinces.…”

New findings of the family Bethylidae (Hymenoptera) from Türkiye

“…Currently, only a small fraction of the estimated number of Bethylidae species in Türkiye have been identified. Given that many more species have been documented in neighbouring countries like Russia (Fadeev, 2021) and Iran (Barahoei et al, 2022), it is likely that additional species exist in Türkiye as well. However, studies on this group in this country are very few and have been probably overlooked by local researchers because of their small size and the presence of wingless ant-like females.…”