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Bruchophagus nikolskayae Khorasan-Razavi

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Bruchophagus nikolskayae (Zerova, 1968)

Material examined. 1♀, IRAN, Qazvin province, Flar (36°24´61"N, 50°05´58"E), 11-VI-2009, Astragalus brachydontus.

Distribution in Iran. East-Azarbaijan (Naghizadeh et al., 2017), Khorasan-Razavi (Dashti & Lotfalizadeh, 2008), and Qazvin (new records) provinces.

Note. We reared B. nikolskayae from seeds of Astragalus brachydontus for the first time; Glycyrrhiza glabra, G. hirsute and G. echinoides were reported as hosts of this species (Alsendi et al., 2019).

Notes

Published as part of Alsendi, Ayad Kadhim, Nozari, Jamasb, Sadeghi, Seyed Ebrahim, Adelimanesh, Hamid & Zerova, Marina, 2022, Contribution to the genus Bruchophagus Ashmead species (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) associated with Astragalus brachydontus (Fabaceae) in Iran, pp. 559-569 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (4) on page 562, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.8.4.559, http://zenodo.org/record/17021420

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References

  • Naghizadeh, A., Lotfalizadeh, H., Nikdel, M. & Sadeghi, S. E. (2017) Fauna of the genus Bruchophagus (Hym.: Eurytomidae) in East-Azarbaijan province, Iran. Journal of Entomological Research, 4 (9), 373-392.
  • Dashti, M. & Lotfalizadeh, H. (2008) On the occurrence of Bruchophagus nikolskajae Zerova, 1975 (Hym.: Eurytomidae): a seed-eater wasp of Eremurus spectabilis in Iran. In: Zafari, D. (ed.) Proceedings of the 18 th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 24-27 August 2008, Hamadan, Iran, Bu Ali sina University, Vol. 1, p. 106.
  • Alsendi, A., Adelimaneshy, H. & Sadeghi, S. E. (2019) Report of some eurytomid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) and their associated host plants from two provinces of Iran. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 388 (1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/388/1/012018