An updated checklist of Iranian Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)
Author
Fallahzadeh, Majid
Author
Japoshvili, George
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-11-06
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121.
Microterys tricoloricornis
(
De Stefani, 1886
)
Host
associations in
Iran
.
Saissetia oleae
(
Ghahari
et al
. 2010
)
.
Distribution in
Iran
.
Mazandaran
(
Ghahari
et al
. 2010
).
General distribution.
Holarctic and Neotropical regions.
Remarks.
De Stefani (1886)
described this taxon in the genus
Encyrtus
Latreille, 1809
. Thirty-five years later,
Mercet (1921)
described the species
E. consobrinus
. However,
Erdös (1957)
synonymized two species and transferred them in the genus
Microterys
. Subsequently,
Guerrieri (1996)
provides some comments on the species. Recently, Japoshvili (2011) examined type's specimens of
Encyrtus consobrinus
and
Microterys tricoloricornis
from Madrid Natural History Museum and gaves information about the difference of this species from other species of
Microteris
in the identification key. We think that this species is valid, but the accuracy of the cited record from
Iran
is unclear.