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strongly coriaceous and trophically associates with Castanea only (BRUSSINO et al. 2002, 2003). Etymology - In honour of MAJIDE TAVAKOLI, a researcher at the Lorestan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center, Khorramabad, Lorestan, Iran, who collected the new species. Distribution - Iran (Lorestan Province, Ghelaie). Biology - Only females are known. On the basis of the gall and the females we have it is hard to say whether we have sampled the sexual or asexual generation. Galls in buds of Q. brantii. The gall starts to develop in March, develops rapidly, and adult females emerge from mid April. Dryocosmus mikoi MELIKA, TAVAKOLI, STONE et AZIZKHANI, sp. n. (Figs 93-111) Type material - Holotype: sexual female labelled as follows: "Iran, Lorestan Province, Schoorab, Q. brantii, 2003.V.

25, leg. M. Tavakoli", red label "Holotype female. Dryocosmus mikoi Melika, Tavakoli, Stone et Azizkhani, desig. G. Melika 2005". Paratypes: 13 female and 4 male paratypes are designated. Seven female and 2 male paratypes have the same labels as the holotype; 6 female and 2 male paratypes labelled as "Iran, Lorestan Province, Ghelaie, Q.brantii, 2003.V.

04, leg. E. Azizkhani" and red label "Paratype. [female or male] Dryocosmus mikoi Melika, Tavakoli, Stone et Azizkhani, desig. G. Melika 2005". The holotype female and one paratype male are deposited in the HNHM, Budapest, Hungary, two female and 1 male paratypes in the museum of the Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran; 5 female and 2 male paratypes in the collection of the Systematic Parasitoid Laboratory, Kőszeg, Hungary. Gall material- 11 galls from the same localities and with the same labels as the type material; 6 galls from Ham Province, Somar, from Q. brantii; 5 galls from Mazandaran Province, Chalos, from Q. castaneifolii. Description - Sexual female. 3.0-3.5 mm. Entire body yellow or light brown, except dark brown tips of mandibles and slightly darker antenna. Compound eyes and ocelli greyish. Head delicately coriaceous, with uniform relatively sparse white setae, 2.4 times times as broad as long from above (Fig. 94), 1.3 times as broad as high, with elevated lateral 1 ocelli area, and slightly narrower as mesosoma in frontal view (Fig. 93). Gena delicately coriaceous, slightly broadened behind eye in frontal view, half as wide as cross diameter of eye, measuring along the transfacial line; malar space very short, 4.8-5.0 times as short as height of compound eye, with strong irradiating striae, nearly reaching the eye, malar sulcus absent. POL slightly longer than OOL; OOL slightly longer than diameter of lateral ocellus and LOL, OOL 3.25 times as short as height of compound eye in frontal view (Figs 93-94). Frons delicately coriaceous, with deep impression under the frontal ocellus which 2.0 times smaller than the diameter of ocellus. Transfacial distance slightly shorter than height of compound eye, 1.3 times as long as height of lower face (distance between antenna! rim and ventral margin of clypeus); diameter of torulus 2.0 times as large as distance between toruli and slightly larger than the distance between torulus and inner margin of eye. Compound eyes slightly curved outwards in frontal view, distance between eyes at the level of the frons less than at