Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species

Abstract

Fourteen species of Chalcidoidea (Encyrtidae, Eulophidae, Eupelmidae, Eurytomidae, Pteromalidae and Torymidae) were obtained from the common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in the Urmia region, in the northwest of Iran. Among these species, two new species of Pteromalidae are described hereafter: Norbanus persicus Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. nov. and Stenomalina delvarei Lotfalizadeh & Rasplus sp. nov. Anagyrus near alienus Japoshvili, 2002, Asitus sp., Cheiloneurus paralia (Walker, 1837), Echthroplexiella obscura (Hoffer, 1952), Neococcidencyrtus poutiersi (Mercet, 1922) (all Encyrtidae), Aprostocetus orithyia (Walker, 1839) (Eulophidae), Eupelmus phragmitis Erdös, 1955 (Eupelmidae), Aximopsis deserticola (Zerova, 2004) comb. nov., Tetramesa phragmitis (Erdös, 1952) and Tetramesa sp. (all Eurytomidae), Homoporus febriculosus (Girault, 1917) (Pteromalidae) and Torymus arundinis (Walker, 1833) (Torymidae) were also obtained from our laboratory rearing. Nine of these species are recorded for the first time from Iran.

Annotated checklist of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in the Middle East and North Africa

“…In recent years, several faunistic or taxonomic works of this family has been done in some countries especially in Iran Mitroiu et al, 2011;Hasani et al, 2011Dehdar & Madjdzadeh, 2013;Mahdavi et al, 2015;Dehdar & Madjdzadeh, 2016;Abolhassanzadeh et al, 2017;Moravvej et al, 2018;Lotfalizadeh et al, 2019aLotfalizadeh et al, , 2019bLotfalizadeh et al, , 2020Rahmani et al, 2019aRahmani et al, , 2019bRahmani et al, , 2020bRahmani et al, , 2020cRahmani et al, , 2021Shojaey et al, 2019Shojaey et al, , 2020Shojaey et al, , 2021 and Turkey (Doğanlar, 2006(Doğanlar, , 2007(Doğanlar, , 2018a(Doğanlar, , 2018b(Doğanlar, , 2018c(Doğanlar, , 2018d(Doğanlar, , 2019(Doğanlar, , 2020a(Doğanlar, , 2020b(Doğanlar, , 2021Doğanlar & Yiğit, 2019;Doğanlar et al, 2018). Few attempts on other countries, Morocco Kissayi et al, 2019Kissayi et al, , 2021, Oman (Soliman et al, 2019), Saudi Arabia (Ghramh & Ahmad, 2014;Soliman et al, 2019), Tunisia (Harbi et al, 2015;Ben Hamouda et al, 2018), United Arab Emirates (van Noort & Rasplus, 2010;van Noort et al, 2013) and…”

Expanding the geographical distribution of two Pseudotorymus Masi (Hymenoptera: Torymidae)

“…Eleven species have hitherto been reported from Iran (see Table 1). Based on the new definition of Jansta et al (2017), excluding Megastiminae as an independent family (Megastigmidae), about 55 species in 17 genera of the family Torymidae have been recorded from Iran (Lotfalizadeh & Gharali, 2005;Fallahzadeh et al, 2009Fallahzadeh et al, , 2015Lotfalizadeh et al, 2020aLotfalizadeh et al, , 2020bPourhaji et al, 2020), of which 20% belongs to the genus Pseudotorymus. Different insect orders i.e.…”