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Ampulicomorpha Ashmead 1893

  • 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, Iran. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2999 - 9298; Shahla. moheban @ yahoo. com
  • 2. Tropical Entomology Research Center, Via De Gasperi 10, I- 01100 Viterbo, Italy. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5953 - 5075; olmimassimo @ gmail. com
  • 3. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, Iran. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1028 - 3211; zrahmani 017 @ gmail. com
  • 4. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, Iran. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5199 - 762 X; erakhshani @ gmail. com
  • 5. Unaffiliated Entomologist, Bogotá D. C., Cundinamarca, Colombia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9601 - 3038; cdianaa @ gmail. com Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia. Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia.
  • 6. Biology Department, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, King Khalid University, Dhahran Al Janoub, Saudi Arabia. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5286 - 026 X; dzubair @ gmail. com

Description

Genus Ampulicomorpha Ashmead, 1893 *

Type species. Ampulicomorpha confusa Ashmead, 1893: holotype, female— California, USA (USNM).

Distribution. All the zoogeographical regions, except Antarctica (Olmi 1996, 1997; Chény et al. 2020).

World species. 24 species (Olmi et al. 2020).

Host. Ectoparasitoids of nymphs of Achilidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha) living in rotten logs and feeding on fungus (Olmi et al. 2014).

Note. Here, the genus is recorded for the first time from the Middle East, Iran (marked with an Asterisk).

Notes

Published as part of Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri, Mohebban, Shahla, Olmi, Massimo, Rahmani, Zahra, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Arias-Penna, Diana Carolina & Ahmad, Zubair, 2022, Revision of Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from the Middle East, pp. 305-323 in Zootaxa 5138 (3) on page 309, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/6559806

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  • Ashmead, W. H. (1893) Monograph of the North American Proctotrypidae. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 45, 1 - 472. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.45.1
  • Olmi, M. (1996) A revision of the world Embolemidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula Entomologica, 17, 85 - 146.
  • Olmi, M. (1997) A contribution to the knowledge of the Embolemidae and Dryinidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Bollettino di Zoologia Agraria e Bachicoltura, 29, 125 - 150.
  • Cheny, C., Guillam, E., Nel, A. & Perrichot, V. (2020) A new species of Ampulicomorpha Ashmead from Eocene French amber, with a list of fossil and extant Embolemidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of the world. BSGFeEarth Sciences Bulletin, 191 (20), 1 - 7. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / bsgf / 2020020
  • Olmi, M., Marletta, A. & Guglielmino, A. (2020) The first record of the family Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) in Reunion, with description of a new species of Embolemus Westwood. Israel Journal of Entomology, 50 (1), 40 - 48.
  • Olmi, M., Belokobylskij, S. A. & Guglielmino, A. (2014) Revision of the family Embolemidae of Russia and Ukraine (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), with description of a new species. Annales Zoologici, 64 (1), 97 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.3161 / 000345414 X 680672