Syntretus, a genus of Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) new for Iran, with first record of two species

Farahani, Samira; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Van Achterberg, Cornelis; Rakhshani, Ehsan; Rakhshani, Ehsan

doi:10.48311/jcp.2012.1044

Syntretus, a genus of Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) new for Iran, with first record of two species

Authors

Samira Farahani ¹

Ali Asghar Talebi ¹

Cornelis van Achterberg ²

Ehsan Rakhshani ³

¹ Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Iran

² Senior Researcher & Curator Hymenoptera, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis, Postbox 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

³ Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran

10.48311/jcp.2012.1044

Abstract

The genus Syntretus Foerster of the subfamily Euphorinae (Hym.: Braconidae) is recorded from Iran for the first time. The specimens were collected using malaise traps from different habitats of Northern provinces during 2010 and 2011. Two species, S. ocularis van Achterberg & Haeselbarth and S. xanthocephalus (Marshall) were collected and identified. A brief discussion about diagnostic characters, as well as comments on general distribution of both species are presented.

Keywords

Braconidae

Euphorinae

Syntretus

new genus record

Northern Iran