The genus Anomalon Panzer (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) of Iran, with description of a new species

Abstract

The Iranian species of the genus Anomalon Panzer, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) are reviewed. Four species, Anomalon amseli (Hedwig, 1961), A. chinense (Kokujev, 1915), A. cruentatum (Geoffroy, 1785) and A. narinae Zardouei & Rakhshani sp. nov., are found to occur in Iran. The female of A. amseli is described for the first time. Anomalon chinense is a new record for Iran. A key to the known Anomalon species of Iran is provided.

A new species and new records of Ichneumonini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae) from Iran

“…Considering the high species richness of the tribe Ichneumonini with more than 1300 known species in the Western Palaearctic (Yu et al, 2016), and the high number of recent new records and new species of the family Ichneumonidae from Iran (Riedel & Aghadokht, 2017;Shirzadegan et al, 2018;Reidel et al, 2019;Zardouei Heydari et al, 2019, 2020a, 2020b, 2020c, 2020dFalahatpisheh et al, 2021), future studies in intact and unexplored regions, will get a more complete picture of the tribe as well as ichneumonid fauna in Iran. This is also the case for other neighbouring countries of Iran.…”

“…In recent years, considerable progress has been made in understanding the taxonomy and fauna of different subfamilies of Ichneumonidae in Iran (Barahoei et al, 2012(Barahoei et al, , 2013(Barahoei et al, , 2014a(Barahoei et al, , 2014b(Barahoei et al, , 2015Mohammadi-Khoramabadi et al, 2011;2013a, 2013bAmiri et al, 2015aAmiri et al, , 2015bAmiri et al, , 2016aAmiri et al, , 2016bAmiri et al, , 2017Shirzadegan et al, 2018;Reidel et al, 2019;Zardouei Heydari et al, 2019, 2020a, 2020b,2020c, 2020dFalahatpisheh et al, 2021). From the tribe Ichneumonini (Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), 137 species have been yet recorded from Iran (Heinrich, 1929;Mojeni & Sedivy, 2001;Kolarov & Ghahari, 2008;Zarepour et al, 2008Zarepour et al, , 2009Barahoei et al, 2012;Riedel et al, 2010Riedel et al, , 2019Riedel & Aghadokht, 2017;.…”

First record of the genus Anomalon Panzer, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Anomaloninae) in Syria

“…The specimens were captured in a greenhouse of Tomato by net. Specimens were pinned and then identified using relevant keys and descriptions Atanasov (1981), Gauld (1978Gauld ( , 1980, Gauld & Mitchell (1977), Schnee (2014) and Zardouei-Heydari et al (2020). Morphological terminology used in this study follow those in Gauld et al (1997).…”

“…It is widely distributed in the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic (Yu et al, 2016;Zardouei-Heydari et al, 2020).…”

“…Anomalonini is represented by a single genus Anomalon Panzer, 1804. Ninety-eight species of this genus have been described worldwide (Yu et al, 2016) and 22 species are distributed in the Palaearctic region (Yu et al, 2016;Zardouei-Heydari et al, 2020). Anomalon is easily distinguished from the other Anomalonine by the combination of the following characters: frons with a median vertical ridge; mid tibia with a single long, strong apical spur; forewing with 2 + 3 rs-m joining M distal to 2 m-cu, hindwing with distal abscissa of Cu1 entirely absent.…”