An annotated catalogue of Iranian Aulacidae, Evaniidae and Gasteruptiidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) Author Ghahari, Hassan Author Madl, Michael text Zootaxa 2017 2017-10-25 4338 2 341 353 journal article 31741 10.11646/zootaxa.4338.2.8 ce5d3e24-560d-4fbd-ac87-8da9b32afeba 1175-5326 1036219 58402BC7-A0A2-43E1-B829-49CD4FA94202 Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830 Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830 : Ghahari & Deans 2010 : 295 (tax., East Azarbaijan ( Ahar ), Golestan (Gorgan), Mazandaran (Qaemshahr), Semnan (Damghan, Semnan ), Tehran (Shahriyar)). * Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Schletterer 1889 : 128 (key), 130 (key), 138 (taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)), pl. 6 (figures 7a, b). Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : de Dalla Torre 1902: 1080 (world catalogue). Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Kieffer 1902 : 3 (world catalogue). Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Kieffer 1904 : 387 (key, taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)). Evania dimidiata dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Kieffer 1912 : 65 (key), 81 (taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)). Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Tirgari 1975 : 57 (biology, Ardabil (Khalkhal), East Azarbaijan (without locality) , Golestan (Gorgan) , Guilan ( Bandar Anzali ) , Isfahan ( Isfahan ) , Mazandaran (Sari) , Qom ( Qom ) , Tehran ( Tehran )) . Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Modarres Awal 1997 : 273 ( Golestan (without locality) , Markazi (without locality) , Tehran (without locality)). Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Deans 2005 : 35 (world catalogue). * Evania hunteri Mani, 1943 : Ghahari et al . 2008 : 701 (biol., Razavi Khorasan (Kashmar)). * Evania stenochela Kieffer, 1911 : Ghahari et al . 2008 : 701 (biol., Golestan (Ali-Abad, Gonbad, Gorgan)). Host in Iran. Unknown. Distribution in Iran . Ardabil ( Tirgari 1975 ), East Azarbaijan ( Ghahari & Deans 2008 ), Golestan ( Tirgari 1975 ; Modarres Awal 1997 ; Ghahari et al . 2008 , 2014 as E. stenochela ; Ghahari & Dean 2010 ), Guilan ( Tirgari 1975 ), Isfahan ( Tirgari 1975 ), Mazandaran ( Ghahari & Deans 2010 ), Qom ( Tirgari 1975 ), Razavi Khorasan ( Ghahari et al . 2008 , 2014 as E . hunteri ), Semnam ( Ghahari & Deans 2010 ), Sistan & Baluchestan ( Tirgari 1975 ; Modarres Awal 1997 ), Tehran ( Tirgari 1975 ; Modarres Awal 1997 ; Ghahari & Dean 2010 ). General distribution. Evania caspia is recorded from Azerbaijan , Egypt , Georgia , Israel and Turkey . It is known also from the Afrotropical region ( Ethiopia , Sudan ). Comments. Stenopogon laevigatus (Loew, 1851) and Dysmachus dasyproctus Loew, 1871 ( Diptera : Asilidae ) have been recorded as the predators of E. caspia ( Ghahari et al . 2008 , 2014 ). Evania caspia is is probably a parasitoid of Blatta orientalis (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Blattodea : Blattidae ) ( Deans 2005 ).