Parasitoid wasps (Ichneumonoidea) collected from faba bean fields, Kharga Oasis, New Valley, Egypt, with new records and the description of a new species Author Gadallah, Neveen S. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; Author Edmardash, Yusuf A. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; Author Mansour, Amany N. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; & Plant Protection Department, Desert Research Center, Cairo Egypt Author Imam, Ahmed I. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; & Plant Protection Department, Desert Research Center, Cairo Egypt & Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt; text Zootaxa 2023 2023-12-22 5389 5 501 544 https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5389.5.1/52536 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.5.1 1175-5326 45230245-48E8-4BEF-B381-4CB8FCB264C1 Lysiphlebus fabarum (Marshall, 1896) Material examined: 1♀ , Kharga Oasis ( New Valley ) [ 25°31’34.0”N 30°37’19.9”E ], May, 2022, blue pan trap in Vicia faba . Diagnosis. Body generally dark brown to black, with the following parts yellow: mouth parts, petiole as well as the following metasomal segment, fore legs; antennal scape, pedicel and F1 brownish, rest of antenna dark brown to black; propodeum pale brown. Labial palpus 1-segmented; antenna with 12–13 antennomeres (female); fore wing with vein M+m-cu only partly developed under r-m vein; pterostigma elongate, about 3.5× as long as wide; with conspicuous vein r; setae on wing apex as well as dorsal margin as long as those on wing surface; propodeum smooth, with two divergent short carinae posteriorly; petiole broadly triangular; ovipositor sheath elongated, rounded apically. FIGURE 1. Binodoxys angelicae (Haliday, 1833) (♀): A, lateral habitus; B, dorsal habitus. Distribution in the MENA: Algeria , Egypt , Iran , Iraq , Israel , Lebanon , Morocco , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Turkey , United Arab Emirates . Comments: This species is widely distributed in the Australasian, Oceanic, Oriental and Palaearctic regions ( Yu et al. 2016 ; Rakhshani et al. 2019 ). It occurs in most of the Middle Eastern and North African countries ( Rakhshani et al. 2019 ; Gadallah et al. 2022c ). It was reported in association with faba bean , V. faba , in the following countries: in Algeria and Iraq , it has been recorded as a primary parasitoid of the black bean aphid Aphis fabae ( Al-Azawi 1970 ; Laamari et al. 2011 , 2012 ; Bandyan et al. 2021 ); in Morocco , Israel , Turkey , Iran , recorded as effective parasitoid of the cowpea aphid Aphis craccivora ( Starý & Sekkat 1987 ; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990; Aşlan et al. 2004 ; Rakhshani et al. 2005 ; Nazari et al. 2012 , respectively). It was also recorded in Algeria as being a parasitoid of A. craccivora (Starý et al. 1971) , as well as Iraq ( Starý 1969 ; Starý & Kaddou 1971 ) without referring to a host plant. And recorded as a parasitoid of A. fabae in Algeria (Starý et al. 1971), Morocco ( Starý 1962 ), and Iraq ( Starý 1969 ; Al-Azawi 1970 ; Starý & Kaddou 1971 ) without referring to host plant. In Egypt , it has been recorded as a parasitoid of the cowpea aphid A. craccivora in faba bean in different areas of Egypt ( El-Defrawi et al. 2000 ; Ragab et al. 2002 ; Abdel-Rahman 2005 ; Abdel-Samad & Ahmed 2009; Ali 2014 ; Jabbar et al. 2020 ). It was also recorded as a parasitoid of the bird cherry-oat aphid, Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) attacking Triticum aestivum ( Megahed 2000 ; Gadallah et al. 2017 ).