Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species
Author
Lotfalizadeh, Hossein
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Plant Protection Research Department, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran. CIRAD, UMR 1062 CBGP, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France. CBGP, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France.
hlotfalizadeh@gmail.com
Author
Karimpour, Younes
E7B0992C-BBFA-444A-A694-D3F54FDA10B0
y.karimpour@urmia.ac.ir
Author
Delvare, Gérard
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gerard.delvare@cirad.fr
Author
Rasplus, Jean-Yves
981D4685-5DA3-44AD-B056-CA5877F06329
Jean-Yves.
Jean-Yves.Rasplus@inra.fr
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-08-28
710
1
35
journal article
21026
10.5852/ejt.2020.710
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Homoporus febriculosus
(Girault, 1917)
Figs 11–12
Material examined
IRAN
–
West-Azarbaijan Province
•
4 ♀♀
,
1 ♂
;
Urmia
,
Kelïsä Kandï
;
37º29′ N
,
45º01′ E
;
1600 m
a.s.l.
;
Apr.
–early
May 2017
;
Y. Karimpour
leg.;
M.-D. Mitroiu
det.; ex
Phragmites australis
;
HMIM
•
8 ♀♀
,
1 ♂
;
Urmia
,
Häshtïan
;
37º47′ N
,
44º39′ E
;
1680 m
a.s.l.
;
Apr.
–early
May 2017
;
Y. Karimpour
leg.;
M.- D. Mitroiu
det.; ex
Phragmites australis
;
HMIM
•
2 ♀♀
;
Urmia
,
Hesar-e Türkmän
;
37º26′ N
,
45º13′ E
;
1293 m
a.s.l.
;
Apr.
–early
May 2017
;
Y. Karimpour
leg.;
M.-D. Mitroiu
det.; ex
Phragmites australis
;
CBGP
•
1 ♀
, same collection data as for preceding;
HMIM
Fig. 11
.
Homoporus febriculosus
(Girault, 1917)
, female.
A
. Lateral view.
B
. Antenna.
C
. Head in frontal view.
D
. Metasoma in lateral view.
E
. Head in dorsal view.
Remarks
Homoporus febriculosus
is a Palaearctic species that is distributed from
UK
to
Turkey
and also reported from
Canada
(
Noyes 2020
). It is known as a parasitoid of some
Diptera
(
Agromyzidae
,
Cecidomyiidae
,
Chloropidae
) and
Hymenoptera
(
Braconidae Latreille, 1829
,
Cephidae Newman, 1834
and
Eurytomidae
) and in our rearing, it seems to be parasitoid of
Tetramesa
spp. (
Eurytomidae
) and
Lipara
spp. (
Chloropidae
) associated with
P. australis
.
All the characters of the sampled specimens well match those reported by
Gahan (1933)
with the following variations: much larger, body length of females vary from
3.3 to 3.8 mm
and males from 2.5
Fig. 12
.
Homoporus febriculosus
(Girault, 1917)
.
A
. Male in lateral view.
B
. Male antenna.
C
. Female in dorsal view.
D
. Fore wing of female.
to 3.17 mm vs female
2–2.8 mm
and males
1.2–2.3 mm
(
Gahan 1933
); head and mesosoma dark, with slight metallic greenish-blue to violet tinge versus dark metallic green (
Gahan 1933
).