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Ghahari H.: A contribution to the study of Eulophidae (Hymeoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Iran
Natura Somogyiensis 27 55-62 Kaposvár, 2015 A contribution to the study of Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Iran Hassan Ghahari Department of Plant Protection, Yadegar - e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, email: hghahari@yahoo.com Ghahari, II.: A contribution to the study of Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Iran. Abstract: The fauna of the family Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from various regions of Iran is studied. In total 25 species of 18 genera and three subfamilies namely Entedoninae, Eulophinae, and Tetrastichinae were collected and identified. Chrysocharis pentheus (Walker, 1839), Chrysocharis pubicomis (Zetterstedt, 1838), Chrysocharis viridis (Nees, 1834) and Sympiesis flavopicta Boucek, 1958 are new records for the fauna of Iran. Keywords: Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae, Fauna, New record, Iran. Introduction Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) is one of the most diverse family of parasi- toids wasps, containing over 4472 species placed in four subfamilies (Entedoninae, Entiinae, Eulophinae, Tetrastichinae) and 297 genera (Noyes 2012). Most of the taxa can be easily identified as having 4-segmented tarsi, four (or fewer) antennal funicular segments and a straight fore tibial spur (BouCek 1988). Many species of Eulophidae are used in biological control, and párásítóid forms can be endoparasitoids or ectoparasi- toids: idiobionts or koinobionts; solitary or gregarious; primary parasitoids, hyperpara- sitoids or facultative hyperparasitoids; or specialists or generalists. Eulophid species can attack eggs, larvae, pupae or even adults in a few cases (Yang & Xie 1998). Eulophids are parasitoids of many insect families namely: Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae (Coleoptera), Agromyzidae, Cecidomyiidae, Drosophilidae, Tephritidae (Diptera), Aleyrodidae, Aphididae (Hemiptera), Cimbicidae, Diprionidae, Pamphilidae, Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera), Bucculatricidae, Coleophoridae, Gelechiidae, Gracillaridae, Heliozelidae, Lasiocampidae, Nepticulidae, Pyralidae and Yponomotidae (Lepidoptera) (Noyes 2012). Soon after publishing the first report on Tetrastichus epilachnae (Giard 1896) by Kiryukhin (1948) the study of Iranian eulophids is accelerated and the following papers were published: Davatchi & Chodjai (1969), Hertino (1973), Doganlar (1992), Malekzadeh et al. (1998), Jafari (2000), Malekzadeh (2002), Alavi et al. (2002), Zahiri et al. (2003), Mahani et al. (2003), Rezaei et al. (2003), Rakhshani et al. (2003), Farrokhi et al. (2004), Talebi et al. (2005), Hesami et al. (2005, 2006a,b, 2007, 2009, 2010), Asadi et al. (2006), Ghahari et al. (2006), Fallahzadeh et al. (2006), Fathipour et al. (2006), Haghani et al. (2007), Nazemi-Rafie et al. (2007), Yefremova et al.
