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

10.48311/jcp.2012.1044
Volume 1, Issue 3
September 2012
Pages 173-179

Authors

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

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.

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