The species of Ormyrus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) in Iran with description of an unusual new species Author Lotfalizadeh, Hosseinali Author Askew, Richard R. Author Fuentes-Utrilla, Pablo Author I, Majid Tavak O L text Zootaxa 2012 3300 34 44 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.210786 be35bee0-224a-47c7-8442-1d4a3df6fffe 1175-5326 210786 8. Ormyrus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1804) Material examined: East-Azarbaijan , Arasbaran, ex Andricus curtisii (= mediterraneus ), 1Ψ. Same locality , ex A. quercustozae , 3Ψ & 1ɗ. Same locality , ex Cynips . quercusfolii on Quercus . macranthera , 1ɗ. Kermanshah , Gahvareh, ex A. coriarius on Q. petraea , 1Ψ. Same locality , ex Aphelonyx persica on Q. brantii , 3Ψ. Same locality , 11ɗ & 21Ψ. Kordestan , Marivan, ex C. quercus , 6Ψ & 7ɗ. Same locality, ex Andricus askewi , 3Ψ. Same locality, 11Ψ & 12ɗ. Same locality, ex A. galeatus , 6Ψ & 1ɗ. Same locality, ex A. lucidus , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex A. mayri , 56Ψ & 20ɗ. Same locality, ex A. truncicolus , 1ɗ. Lorestan, Ghalai, ii.2003 , ex Andricus curtisii on Q. infectoria , (E. Azizkhani) , 2Ψ & 1ɗ. Same locality , 37Ψ & 17ɗ. Lorestan , Sar Pol Zahab, 1Ψ. Lorestan , Javanrode, 6Ψ & 1ɗ. West-Azarbaijan , Piran-Shahr, ex A. caputmedusae , 1Ψ. Same locality, A. polycerus , 6Ψ. Same locality, ex A. pseudoaries on Q. petraea and Q. macranthera , 1Ψ. West-Azarbaijan , Sar-Dasht, ex A. megalucidus , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex A. sternlichti , 1ɗ. Same locality, ex A. tomentosus , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex Cynips divisa , 4Ψ. Many specimens reared from a range of galls of Andricus , Aphelonyx and Cynips (Cynipidae) in the provinces of West-Azarbaijan, Lorestan, Kordestan and Kermanshah (Table 1). Exceptionally, Askew et al . (2006) mention an association of this species with the cynipid wasp Diplolepis rosae (L.) on Rosa . Ormyrus nitidulus is widely distributed in the West Palaearctic region ( Noyes 2011 ) although it has not been mentioned for Middle East countries ( Narendran et al. 2007 ). It is possible that the morphospecies O. nitidulus is a complex of cryptic species, as has been reported for other parasitoids of the oak gallwasp community ( Nicholls et al. 2010 ). It displays a moderate amount of variation and molecular analysis reveals a number of clades, but we have not been able to completely match the molecular clades to morphological forms.