A Study of the Genus Zabrachypus Cushman, 1920 (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae Pimplinae) From Iran With Descriptions of Two New Species

Abstract

Mohammadi-Khoramabadi A., Talebi A., Broad G. R., Zwakhals K. - A study of the genus Zabrachypus Cushman, 1920 (Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae Pimplinae) from Iran with descriptions of two new species. Four species of the genus Zabrachypus were collected and identified from northern Iran, of which one species is recorded for the first time, Z. cazorlensis Rey del Castillo, 1996, and two species are described as new: Z. rubroabdominalis n. sp. and Z. rugatus n. sp.. A key to the species is provided. Their ecology and phenology are discussed. KEY WORDS: taxonomy, Zabrachypus, Z. rubroabdominalis n. sp., Z. rugatus n. sp., Iran.

New records of the family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichnemonoidea) to the fauna of Iran

“…Many studies in recent years have increased our knowledge on the fauna, distribution (Amiri et al, 2015a(Amiri et al, , 2015b(Amiri et al, , 2016a(Amiri et al, , 2016bHooshyar et al, 2018;Jahan et al, 2016;Mahyabadi et al, 2016;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi & Talebi, 2013;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2013a;2013b;Mohammadi et al, 2020;Riedel et al, 2019a;Sarafi et al, 2015;Shirzadegan et al, 2017Shirzadegan et al, , 2018aShirzadegan et al, , 2018b and bioecology of these important and abundant parasitoid wasps in forest, range and agricultural ecosystems of Iran (Akbarzadeh-Shoukat, 2012;Fathi et al, 2012;Kamangar et al, 2017;Mehrnejad & Basirat, 2009;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2016aPourhaji et al, 2016;Shamszadeh et al, 2015). Northwest of Iran is of great importance both in terms of animal genetic resources, which contains five national park and protection areas (Hanson et al, 2009;Zehzad et al, 2002) and in terms of its potency of agricultural products (Ebadzadeh et al, 2018).…”