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Samin, N. et al.: Updated checklist of Iranian Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) with twenty-three new records

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The biogeographic location of Iran in the Palaearctic is unique, placed at the crossroads of the Oriental and Afrotropical ecozones, Central Asia and Caucasus. Therefore, its fauna is expected to be mainly South Palaearctic, but with representatives of Central Asian, Caucasus, Oriental and Afrotropical elements (Strumia & Fallahzadeh 2015, Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili 2017). Continuing of faunistic surveys in different regions especially in the unsampled areas (e.g., northeastern and central parts of Iran) will result to finding new data (new country records, new species, new host records). Regarding to high diversity of braconids' hosts in Iran (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera), we expect several unknown species in different ecosystems. Braconid wasps are powerful parasitoids of agricultural and forest pests which can decrease the population densities of different pests especially Lepidoptera. Conservation of these natural enemies will be resulted to higher efficiency of these beneficial insects.

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to A. Beyarslan (Trakya University, Turkey), J. Papp (Hungarian Natural History Museum) for identification of some materials, H. Ghahari (Iran) for reviewing the manuscript, Dicky S. Yu (Canada) and S.R. Shaw (USA) for providing of some literature. The research was supported by Islamic Azad University (Young Researchers and Elites Club, Science and Research Branch), and Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas.