New taxonomic position for a recently collected eurytomid species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Iran

Volume 10, Issue 2
June 2021
Pages 271-279

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

1 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran.

2 Plant Protection Research Department, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran.

3 CIRAD, UMR 1062 CBGP, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France.

4 Department of Plant Protection, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Iran.

Abstract
The seed-eater wasp, Bruchophagus verbasci (Erdös, 1969) comb. nov. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) is newly quoted from Iran. This species was originally described in the genus Eurytoma Illiger, 1807. Considering its morphological characters and the new finding of its biological association with some fabaceous plants, it was transferred to the genus, Bruchophagus Ashmead, 1888. It was redescribed and illustrated. Two fabaceous plant species, Astragalus brachydonatus Boiss. and Trigonella montana C. A. Mey. are revealed as host plants of B. verbasci for the first time. It is a new record for France, Morocco, and Turkey.

Keywords

Subjects
Alizadeh, Z., Bagheri, M., Lotfalizadeh H. and Eivazian-Kary, N. 2019. Review of two seed wasps genera (Hymenoptera: Eurytomidae) in Iran with description of a new species. North-Western Journal of Zoology, 16(1): 1-7.
Erdös, J. 1969. Aliuot species novae Hungaricae in familia Eurytomidarum (Hym., Chalcidoiedea). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici Pars Zoologica, 61: 337-349.
Kalantary, A.A., Safaralizadeh, M.H., Lotfalizadeh, H., Sadeghi, E., Aramideh, Sh., and Mirfakhraeai, Sh. 2017. Identification and introduction of Fabaceae seed-eating eurytomids (Hym.: Eurytomidae) in North-Khorasan province. Proceedings of 2nd Iranian International Congress of Entomology, p. 181.
Kalantary, S.A.A., Safaralizadeh, M.H., Lotfalizadeh, H., Aramideh, Sh., Mirfakhraeai, Sh. And Sadeghi, E. 2019. Identification and species diversity of seed feeding insects of rangelands Legumes (Fabaceae) in the North Khorasan province. Iranian Journal of Forest and Range Protection Research, 17(1): 82-95.
Lotfalizadeh, H. and Zarnegar, A. 2014. A study of the family Eurytomidae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) reared on rangeland Astragalus in Qazvin province. Proceeding of 21th Iranian Congress of Plant Protection, Urmia, Iran, p. 702.
Lotfalizadeh, H., Delvare, G. and Rasplus, J.-Y. 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of Eurytomidae (Chalcidoidae: Eurytomidae) based on morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 151: 447-510.
Naghizadeh, A., Lotfalizadeh, H., Nikdel, M. and Sadeghi, S.E. 2017. Fauna of the genus Bruchophagus (Hym.: Eurytomidae) in East-Azarbaijan province, Iran. Journal of Entomological Research, 4(9): 373-392.
Noyes, J.S. 1982. Collecting and preserving chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). Journal of Natural History, 16: 315-334.
Noyes, J.S. 2020. Universal Chalcidoidea Database. The Natural History Museum. <http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/, accessed at: 2020.01.20.>
Parsa, M., Adeli-Manesh, H., Sadeghi, S.E., Lotfalizadeh, H., Al-Sendi, A. Mohammadpour, A., Zerova, M. and Fursov, V. 2018. New trophic associations for some Bruchophagus species (Hym.: Eurytomidae) in Iran. Iranian Journal of Forest and Range Protection Research, 16(1): 107-117.
Parsa, M., Adeli-Manesh, H., Sadeghi, S.E., Lotfalizadeh, H., Al-Sendi, A. Mohammadpour, A., Zerova, M. and Fursov, V. 2020. New records of seed-feeding and parasitic chalcid wasps of the family Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from Iran. Journal of Entomological Society of Iran, 39 (4): 367-381.
Saghaei, N., Fallahzadeh, M. and Lotfalizadeh, H. 2018. Annotated catalog of Eurytomidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Iran. Transactions of The American Entomological Society, 144: 263-293.
Szelényi, G. 1976. Mongolian eurytomids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea). III. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 22(3/4): 397-405.
Zarnegar A. and Lotfalizadeh H. 2014. New record of Bruchophagus trigonellae Zerova (Hym.: Eurytomidae) from Iran. Proceedings of 22th Iranian Plant Protection Congress, 1, p. 783.
Zerova, M.D. 1978. Hymenoptera II. Chalcidoidea 8. Eurytomidae. Opredeliteli Nasekomykh Evropeyskoy Chasti SSR, 3: 358-374.
Zerova, M.D. 1995. The parasitic Hymenoptera – Subfamilies Eurytominae and Eudecatominae (Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae) of the Palaearctics. Naukova Dumka Publishers, 455 pp.
Zerova, M. D. 2010. Palaearctic species of the genus Eurytoma (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae): morphological and biological peculiarities, trophical associations and key to determination. Vestnik Zoologii, Kiev (Supplement), 24: 1-203.
Zerova, M.D. and Seregina, L.Y. 1994. The seed-eating Chalcidoidea of Palaearctics. Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 234 pp.
Zerova, M.D., Al-Sendi, A., Fursov, V.N., Adeli-Manesh, H., Sadeghi, S.E. and Pirouzi, F. 2019. Two new species of the genus Systole (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eurytomidae), with first record of S. complanata from Iran. Vestnik Zoologii, 53(2): 107-112.