A Study on the Ichneumonid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Isfahan Province, Iran

Abstract

The fauna of ichneumonid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Isfahan province (Iran) is studied in this paper. In total 28 species from 24 genera and 6 subfamilies (Campopleginae, Cryptinae, Ichneumoninae, Ophioninae, Pimplinae and Tryphoninae) were collected and identified. Encrateola laevigata (Ratzeburg, 1848), Mesoleptus laticintus (Walker, 1874) (Cryptinae), Hepiopelmus melanogaster (Gmelin, 1790) (Ichneumonidae), and Apechthis quadridentata (Thomson, 1877) (Pimplinae) are new records for the fauna of Iran.

Contribution to the knowledge of the fauna of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from Iran.

“…Material examined: Khuzestan province, Izeh, 31°54'N 49°59'E, 1 , April 2010. Previous records from Iran: Golestan (Ghahari & Jussila 2012), Guilan (Kolarov & Ghahari 2006), Markazi ).…”

Cryptinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) fauna of Isfahan Province of central Iran

“…Distribution in Iran: Fars, Guilan, Isfahan, Khorasane-Razavi, Mazandaran (Kolarov and Ghahari, 2007), Qazvin (Ghahari and Schwarz, 2012).…”

“…Many species are idiobiont ectoparasitoids, and some genera also contain koinobiont endoparasitoids (Wahl, 1993). Until now, 99 species from the subfamily Cryptinae have been recorded from Iran (Barahoei et al, 2012;Ghahari and Schwarz, 2012), of which only 2 species, Mesostenus transfuga Gravenhorst, 1829 and Synechocryptus sanguinolentus (Gravenhorst, 1829), have already been recorded from Isfahan Province (Kolarov and Ghahari, 2007;Barahoei et al, 2012).…”

Фауністичне дослідження Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) Ірану

“…After that H. Barahoei, E. Rakhshani, and M. Riedel (2012) published the checklist comprises 502 species belonging to 189 genera and 24 subfamilies. Latter, other authors (Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al 2013;Ghahari, Jussila 2014a;2015a;2015b;2016a;2016b;Barahoei et al 2014a;Ghahari 2015;2016;Ghahari, Gadallah 2017;Riedel, Aghadokht 2017;Mohammadi-Khoramabadi, Talebi 2018, etc. ) have made contributions to the Iranian fauna.…”