First records of xylobiontic Pachygastrinae (Dipera: Stratiomyidae) from Iran
Author
Kazerani, F.
Author
Farashiani, M. E.
text
Far Eastern Entomologist
2018
2018-04-10
355
13
17
http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/fee.355.2
journal article
10.25221/fee.355.2
2713-2196
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Pachygaster leachii
(Curtis, 1824)
Figs 11–20
MATERIAL EXAMINED.
Iran
:
Golestan province
,
Shast-Kola
forests,
36°44'12'' N
,
54°24'15''E
,
814 m
, pan traps,
10.
VI
2017
,
5♂
,
4♀
; Shast-Kola forests,
36°43'10'' N
, 54°24'
17'' E,
817 m
, sweeping net,
10.VI 2017
,
2♀
; Shast-Kola forests,
36°43'00.7" N
54°23'13.7"
E,
1271 m
, pan traps,
12.VIII 2017
,
6♀
(leg. F. Kazerani).
DIAGNOSTIC CHARACTERS. Antenna in both sex yellow (
Figs. 15, 17
); frons shining
(
Fig. 18
); occiput behind eyes (lateral view) not broad in female (
Figs. 17, 18
), female eyes distance moderately wide (
Fig. 18
); wings transparent throughout length (
Figs. 11–14
); legs totally yellow (
Figs. 11, 13
); male genitalia as in (
Fig. 20
), male cerci bilobed (
Fig. 19
).
DISTRIBUTION. Throughout Europe,
Azerbaijan
and
Ukraine
(Rozkošný, 1983; Woodley, 2001; Dubrovsky, 2004; Krivosheina, 2004).
NOTES. Dubrovsky (2004) mentioned that larva of
P. leachii
have been found in
Boletus
(a genus of fungus) and in oak rotten wood.