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Sakenin Chelav, H. et al.: A faunistic study on Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) of Iran
12 Natura Somogyiensis control system for regulating arthropod populations. Over than 800 chalcid species have been associated with targeted biological control programs (Greathead 1986, Godfray 1994, Gibson et al. 1997, Bellows & Fisher 1999). Chalcidoids' species diversity of Iran was poorly studied so far (Modarres Awal 1997) with exception some families - e.g. Aphelinidae (Abd-Rabou et al. 2013), Encyrtidae (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili 2010), Eulophidae (Talebi et al. 2011), Pteromalidae (Ghahari et al. 2015) and Signiphoridae (Ghahari et al. 2014). Chalcididae currently includes 87 genera and 1464 species placed in 5 subfamilies in the world. Encyrtidae currently includes 460 genera and 3735 species placed in two subfamilies in the world. Eupelmidae currently includes 45 genera and 907 species placed in 3 subfamilies as follows: Calosotinae, Eupelminae and Neanastatinae. World Eurytomidae currently includes 88 genera and 1424 species placed in three subfamilies: Eurytominae, Heimbrinae, and Rileyinae. Mymaridae currently includes 103 genera and 1424 species in the world. The family Perilampidae currently includes 15 genera and 277 species placed in 3 subfamilies as follows: Chrysolampinae, Perilampinae and Philomidinae (Noyes 2017). The aim of the present study was to survey the major families of Chalcidoidea in some regions of Iran. Material and methods The specimens were collected by sweeping net and Malaise traps from some regions of Iran. The samplings were in 10 provinces, Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari, Golestan, Guilan, Hamadan, Isfahan, Kuhgiloyeh-Boyerahmad, Mazandaran, Qazvin, Semnan and West Azarbaijan (Fig. 1). Also, some parasitoids were obtained through the rearing of their hosts in optimum conditions (27±1 °C, 70±5% RH, 16: 8 L: D) in an incubator for emergence of parasitoids. For this purpose, larval stage of some pests in the orders Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera were collected and reared. The specimens of this investigation were identified by the authors and some other specialists, and are preserved in the collections of the first and second authors and also some of colleagues named in the acknowledgements. In this paper, classification, nomenclature and distribution were adapted from Noyes (2017). Results In this study 24 species of Chalcidoidea were obtained and identified from different regions of Iran. Chalcis myrifex (Sulzer, 1776) (Chalcididae), Anagyrus belibus (Walker, 1837), Copidosoma peticus (Walker, 1846), Diversinervus elegans Silvestri, 1915, Encyrtus infelix (Embleton, 1902), Microterys chalcostomus (Dalman, 1820), Microterys duplicatus (Nees, 1834), Syrphophagus herbidus (Dalman, 1820) (Encyrtidae), Eupelmus atropurpureus Dalman, 1820, Eupelmus linearis Förster, 1860, Eupelmus testaceiventris (Motschulsky, 1863), Eusandalum walkeri (Curtis, 1836), Pentacladia eques (Haliday, 1862) (Eupelmidae), Eurytoma onobrychidis Nikol’skaya, 1933, Tetramesa cornuta (Walker, 1832) (Eurytomidae), Anaphes diana (Girault, 1911) (Mymaridae) and Perilampus tristis Mayr, 1905 (Perilampidae) are newly recorded from Iran. The list of species is given below alphabetically with distribution data.
