Minab, Farzad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Talamas, Elijah J., Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa (2023). A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran. , 9(2), 343-383. doi: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.343
Farzad Minab; Ehsan Rakhshani; Elijah J. Talamas; Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam. "A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran". , 9, 2, 2023, 343-383. doi: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.343
Minab, Farzad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Talamas, Elijah J., Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa (2023). 'A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran', , 9(2), pp. 343-383. doi: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.343
Minab, Farzad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Talamas, Elijah J., Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran. , 2023; 9(2): 343-383. doi: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.343

A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
Article 9, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 343-383    PDF (4.2 M)
Document Type: Checklist
DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.343
Authors
Farzad Minab1; Ehsan Rakhshani* 1; Elijah J. Talamas2; Mostafa Ghafouri Moghaddam3
1Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, 98615–538, I.R. Iran
2Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL, USA
3Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Phayathai Road, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330,
Abstract
Iranian species of the superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera) belonging to two families Platygastridae, (12 genera, 35 species) and Scelionidae (13 genera, 46 species), are reviewed. The recorded platygastroid species from Iran represent a very small assemblage of the world fauna, and certainly not the complete list from Iran. Except for a few recently described species, the others are found in many other countries as well. The known distribution for 27 species (77.1%) of Platygastridae of Iran is restricted to the Palaearctic region, while a smaller percentage was found in the Afrotropical (14.3%) and Nearctic (8.6%) regions. The distributions of 77.8% of Iranian scelionids are strictly Palaearctic, while the remaining scelionids were found also in the Nearctic (11.1%), Oriental (11.1%), Afrotropical (8.9%), Australasian (2.2%) and Neotropic regions (2.2%). Considering the sporadic treatment of platygastroids in Iran, it is evident that major parts of the country, including the eastern third, remain unexplored.
Keywords
distribution; fauna; Egg parasitoids; Biological control
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