Parasitic Wasps: Chalcidoidea and Ichneumonoidea

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

“…More than 122 hosts incest can be parasitized by twenty-five species of Chalcididae; of these, ninety-eight are Lepidoptera, sixteen Diptera, thirteen Hymenoptera, and four Coleoptera (Ferrer, 2010). Lotfalizadeh and Mohammadi-Khoramabadi (2021) believe that 71% of known species from Iran have unknown biology and the rest are parasitoids of Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and Diptera as the main hosts of the family. So far, more than six species belonging to three genera of Chalcidoidea have been reported from Iraq (Noyes, 2020).…”

First records of the genera Psilocera Walker, 1833 and Stinoplus Thomson, 1878 (Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae) in Iran

“…Majority of Pteromalidae are known as parasitoids of the eggs, larvae and pupae from many orders of insects (Bouček, 1988). The subfamily Pteromalinae is the largest subgroup in Pteromalidae, with more than 2330 described species in 317 genera (Noyes, 2020), of which 101 species belonging to 49 genera are recorded in Iran (Farahani et al, 2010;Hassan-Pashai-Mehr & Lotfalizadeh, 2015;Mahdavi et al, 2015;Abolhassanzadeh et al, 2017;Moravvej et al, 2018;Lotfalizadeh et al, 2019aLotfalizadeh et al, , 2019bRahmani et al, 2019aRahmani et al, , 2019bRahmani et al, , 2020Shojaey et al, 2019). Beside the general faunistic and taxonomic works, there are scattered taxonomic studies on the small genera of Pteromalinae that are rare or uncommon, in general (Farahani et al, 2010;Bayegan et al, 2014;Hassan-Pashai-Mehr & Lotfalizadeh, 2015;Rahmani et al, 2019b;Shojaey et al, 2019).…”