Review of Iranian Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with nomenclatural notes
Author
Falahatpisheh, Ali
Author
Fallahzadeh, Majid
Author
Dousti, Abu Fazel
Author
Delvare, Gérard
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-03-14
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10.11646/zootaxa.4394.2.8
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Brachymeria tibialis
(Walker, 1834)
Material examined
.
IRAN
:
Fars
, Kohmare, loc
.
11, 08.v.
2010, (7 ♀, 5 ♂) (in JIAU and CIRAD: GDEL0378 and GDEL0379).
Distribution
. This species is widely distributed in the
Oriental
and Palaearctic regions and was also introduced in North America for the control of
Lymantria dispar
.
Hosts
. The species was reared from a number of lepidopterous hosts mostly living in arboreal habitats (Noyes 2017). In
Iran
, it was reared from
Pandemis
in Azarbaijan
and
Ocneria joeniteris
[
Ocneria signatoria poenitens
Stgr.
] (
Lepidoptera
,
Lymantriidae
) on
Tamarix
and
Pistacia atlantica
subsp.
mutica
in the
Kerman province
(Lotfalizadeh
et al
. 2012).