First report of the parasitoid wasp Platygaster oebalus (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from Iraq

Abstract

The parasitoid wasp Platygaster oebalus was collected from Karbala city in April 2019 and recorded for the first time from Iraq.

Four new species and new records of Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from Iran

“…Some species of Platygastroidea were reported by Kononova & Kozlov (2008) from Turkey. Three species of Scelio Latreille, 1805 (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea: Scelionidae) (Polaszek et al 2019) and Platygaster oebalus Walker, 1835 (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) (Kareem et al 2020) have been reported from Iraq. A new genus and species of platygastrid flies, namely Psix abnormis Kozlov & Le, 1976, were described from Afghanistan (Kozlov & Le 1976).…”