First Record of Two Parasitoid Wasps of the Family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera) in Iraq

Abstract

The family Chalcididae (Order: Hymenoptera) is known as one of the large chalcidoid wasps with some distinct morphological characters. The first occurrence of two parasitoid species belonging to this family was reported in the Al-Husayniya district Karbala Province, Iraq; which are: Brachymeria podagrica (Fabricius, 1787) and Chalcis myrifex (Sulzer, 1776). Both species were collected by using the sweeping net from orchards during July 2020.

Additional distributional data of the genera Brachymeria Westwood and Monodontomerus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea), with two new records from Greece

“…Distribution. Australia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Egypt, France, Germany, Greece (New record), Haiti, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Sicily, Jamaica, Japan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, United States of America, Vietnam, Zambia (Noyes, 2019;Rajabi et al, 2011;Ramirez-Mora & Durango-Manrique, 2021;Abd Al Galil et al, 2022;Kareem et al, 2022). Systematics 2023  9 (4) Brachymeria rugulosa (Forster, 1859) (Fig.…”

Two New Records of Cerceris Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Crabronidae) from Iraq

“…The taxonomic studies about Hymenoptera are few and scattered in Iraq and restricted about some guilds [10][11][12] Members of the genus Cerceris are witch hunt mainly bees or beetles as a provision for their larvae, they prefer dry and hot areas [9]. Cerceris was revised in Arabian Peninsula [13,14] and Iraq [15].…”