Published June 20, 2022 | Version v1
Journal article Open

A faunistic study on Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) in Alborz, Guilan and Qazvin provinces, Iran

  • 1. Department of Plant Protection, Yadegar-e-Imam Khomeini (RAH) Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University
  • 2. Zoological Museum, Section of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, University of Turku
  • 3. Biologiezentrum Linz
  • 4. División de Estudios de Postgrado e Investigación, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

Description

This paper deals with a faunistic survey of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) collected from some regions of three provinces, Alborz, Guilan and Qazvin in northern part of Iran. In total, 66 species in 47 genera and 13 subfamilies were collected and identified: Acaenitinae (two species, two genera), Anomaloninae (two species, two genera), Banchinae (six species, six genera), Campopleginae (six species, three genera), Cremastinae (three species, two genera), Cryptinae (eleven species, seven genera), Ichneumoninae (three species, three genera), Mesochorinae (five species, two genera), Metopiinae (eight species, four genera), Orthocentrinae (five species, five genera), Phygadeuontinae (two species, two genera), Pimplinae (five species, four genera) and Tryphoninae (seven species, five genera).

Files

172-188.pdf

Files (288.5 kB)

Name Size Download all
md5:ae3728475e9d70e6f8d09a7c96afbf15
288.5 kB Preview Download

Additional details

References

  • Bennett A.M.R. 2015. Revision of the world genera of Tryphoninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). - Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 86: 1-395.
  • Broad G. 2011. Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/ich_subfamily_key_2_11_compressed-95113.pdf
  • Delrio G. 1975. Revision des espèces ouest-palearctiques de genre Netelia Gray (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Studi Sassaresi Sez III. - Annali della Facolta di Agraria dell'Universita di Sassari. 23: 1-126.
  • Gauld I.D. 2006. 12.1. Familia Ichneumonidae. In: Hanson, P.E. and Gauld I.D. (eds.), Hymenoptera de la Región Neotropical. - Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 77: 446-487.
  • Gürbüz M.F., Kolarov J., Özdan A., Tabur M.A. 2011. Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) Fauna of Natural Protection Areas in East Mediterranean Region of Turkey, Part I. - Journal of the Entomological Research Society. 13 (1): 23-39.
  • Horstmann K. 1968. Revision einiger Arten der Gattungen Mesostenus Gravenhorst, Agrothereutes Foerster und Ischnus Gravenhorst (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). - Entomophaga. 13 (2): 121-133.
  • Horstmann K. 1990. Dies westpaläarktischen Arten der Gattung Pristomerus Curtis, 1836 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). - Entomofauna. 11 (2): 9-44.
  • Kasparyan D.R. 1981. Key of insects of European part of USSR. Vol. III. Part III. Nauka. Leningrad.
  • Kolarov J., Çoruh S., Çoruh I. 2016. Contribution to the knowledge of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) fauna of Turkey from northeastern Anatolia, Part I. - Turkish Journal of Zoology. 40: 40-56.
  • Rossem G. van 1966. A study of the genus Trychosis Foerster in Europe (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae).- Zoologische Verhandelingen. 79: 1-40
  • Rousse P., Villemant C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. - Zootaxa. 3278: 1-57.
  • Schwarz A. 2002. Revision der westpaläarktischen Arten der Gattungen Gelis Thunberg mit apteren Weibchen und Thaumatogelis Schmiedeknecht (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Teil 1. - Linzer biologische Beiträge. 27 (1): 5-105.
  • Schwarz A. 2007. Revision der westpaläarktischen Arten der Gattung Hoplocryptus Thomson (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). - Linzer biologische Beiträge. 39 (2): 1161-1219.
  • Townes H. 1969. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 1. Memoirs of American Entomological Institute. 11: 1-300.
  • Townes H. 1970a. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 2. - Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 12 (1969), 537 pp.
  • Townes H. 1970b. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 3. - Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 13 (1969), 307 pp.
  • Townes H. 1971. The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4. - Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 17, 372 pp.
  • Vas Z. 2016. A new species of Temelucha Förster from Malta with an updated and revised identification key to the western Palaearctic Temelucha species (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Cremastinae). - Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 48: 67-84.
  • Yu D.S., van Achterberg K., Horstmann K. 2016. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, Biology, Morphology and Distribution. Taxapad.com. Canada.