Published August 28, 2020 | Version v1
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Anagyrus Howard 1896

  • 1. Plant Protection Research Department, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran.
  • 2. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
  • 3. CIRAD, UMR 1062 CBGP, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France.
  • 4. CBGP, Univ. Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France.

Description

Anagyrus near alienus Japoshvili, 2012

Fig. 1

Material examined

IRAN – West-Azarbaijan Province • 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Urmia, Häshtïan; 37º47′ N, 44º39′ E; 1680 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg., ex Phragmites australis; HMIM • 3 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg., ex Phragmites australis; HMIM • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Urmia, Täzehkand-e Qäterchï; 37º39′ N, 44º58′ E; 1335 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg., ex Phragmites australis; HMIM.

Remarks

Our specimens possess all the diagnostic characters of A. alienus, but the females are slightly larger (2.2 mm) than the type specimens of A. alienus (1.7 mm). Furthermore, the scape (Fig. 1B) is also slightly wider than in A. alienus (about 2.5 × vs 3.3× as long as broad in A. alienus), consequently our specimens could represent an undescribed species. Anagyrus alienus was previously known from Turkey and our sampling locality is close to the type locality. The biology of A. alienus is unknown (Japoshvili 2012). Our sampling reveals an association of A. near alienus with P. australis, on which it is associated with a species of Pseudococcidae (Hemiptera) that appears to be a pest of P. australis.

Notes

Published as part of Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Karimpour, Younes, Delvare, Gérard & Rasplus, Jean-Yves, 2020, Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) obtained from common reed, Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. (Poaceae) in Iran with new records and descriptions of two new species, pp. 1-35 in European Journal of Taxonomy 710 on page 4, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.710, http://zenodo.org/record/4011124

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HMIM
Scientific name authorship
Howard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Encyrtidae
Genus
Anagyrus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Anagyrus Howard, 1896 sec. Lotfalizadeh, Karimpour, Delvare & Rasplus, 2020

References

  • Japoshvili G. 2012. New data on encyrtid (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Encyrtidae) parasitoids of coccoids (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from Turkey, with description of five new species. Entomologica Fennica 23 (2): 72 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.33338 / ef. 6778