New record of the genus and species Callitula ferrierei (Bouček) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from Iran

Bayegan, Zainab; Lotfalizadeh, Hosseinali; Zargaran, Mohammadreza; Pooraiiouby, Rana

doi:10.48311/jcp.2014.1100

New record of the genus and species Callitula ferrierei (Bouček) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) from Iran

10.48311/jcp.2014.1100

Volume 3, Issue 2
June 2014

Pages 125-128

Authors

Z. bayegan ¹

H. Lotfalizadeh ²

M. zargaran ³

R. Pooraiiouby ⁴

¹ M. Sc Student of Agricultural Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran.

² Department of Plant Protection, Azarbaijan-e-Sharghi Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tabriz, Iran.

³ Department of Forestry, Natural Resource Faculty, University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran.

⁴ Department of Plant Protection, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

Among the recently collected chalcidoid wasps in a rice field of eastern Guilan province (coast of Caspian Sea), in July 2012, there was a specimen of Pteromalidae belonging to the genus Callitula. It was identified as Callitula ferrierei (Bouček, 1964). Both genus and species are new record for Iranian fauna. Morphological characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded species are given.

Keywords

Callitula

new record

Iran

fauna

distribution

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