Occurrence of eulophid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) in rice fields of eastern Guilan, Iran

Bayegan, Zainab-Alssadat; Lotfalizadeh, Hossein; Zargaran, Mohammad-Reza

doi:10.48311/jcp.2015.1204

Occurrence of eulophid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) in rice fields of eastern Guilan, Iran

10.48311/jcp.2015.1204

Volume 4, Issue 2
June 2015

Pages 199-205

Authors

Z. Bayegan ¹

H. Lotfalizadeh ²

M. Zargaran ³

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz Branch, Tabriz, Iran.

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

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

Abstract

Considering the importance of parasitic wasps in biological control of pests, a faunal study was conducted in the year 2012 on eulophid wasps (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) in rice fields in the east of Guilan province, southern coast of Caspian Sea. Several specimens were captured via Malaise traps. The specimens were identified as Aprostocetus deobensis (Graham), Aprostocetus mycerinus (Walker), Elasmus phthorimaeae Ferrière and Hemiptarsenus sp. Two species, A. deobensis and A. mycerinus are new records for Iran. In addition, association of A. deobensis, A. mycerinus and E. phthorimaeae with rice is new.

Keywords

Eulophidae

Aprostocetus

new record

New association

parasitoids