Report of Cirrospilus variegatus (Hym.: Eulophidae), parasitoid of dipterous leafminers from Iran

During the study of parasitoids of leafminer flies, some parasitoid wasps belonging to the family Eulophidae, including Cirrospilus variegatus (Masi), Diglyphus isaea (Walker) and Hemiptarsenus zilahisebessi Erdös were collected and identified, of which C. variegatus is a new report for Iran. The latter species was reared from Liriomyza sativa Blanchard (Diptera: Agromyzidae) on cucumber in the glasshouses of Varamin, Tehran in April 2003, as well as an unidentified leaf miner fly from the same family on Tanacetum sp. in Shiraz in June 2004

Note referring to the description of Diglyphus scapus (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

در مقاله‌ی Hesami et al. (2006) درباره‌ی معرفی گونه‌هایی از زنبورهای خانواده‌ی Eulophidae در ایران، گونه‌ی جدیدی با عنوان Diglyphus scapus Yefremova معرفی و توصیف گردید که بدون ذکر محل نگه‌داری هولوتیپ منتشر شد. طبق بند 2-4-16 کد بین‌المللی نام‌گذاری جانوری (ICZN, 1999)، برای این که نام علمی یک جانور توصیف شده available محسوب گردد، ضروری است محل نگه‌داری هولوتیپ به طور روشن بیان گردد. از‌این‌رو، بدین‌وسیله معرفی هولوتیپ گونه‌ی مذکور تصحیح می‌گردد

PARASITOID COMPLEX (HYMENOPTERA, EULOPHIDAE) OF MINING FLIES (DIPTERA, AGROMYZIDAE) IN THE MIDDLE VOLGA RIVER BASIN

Strakhova IS, Yefremova ZA, von Tschirnhaus M, Yegorenkova EN. PARASITOID COMPLEX (HYMENOPTERA, EULOPHIDAE) OF MINING FLIES (DIPTERA, AGROMYZIDAE) IN THE MIDDLE VOLGA RIVER BASIN. Zoologichesky Zhurnal. 2013;92(5):553-561.A parasitoid complex of fifteen Agromyzidae species (Agromyza nana Meigen, Aulagromyza populi (Kalt.), Amauromyza sp. n. aff. insularis, Calycomyza humeralis (von Roser), Chromatomyia horticola (Goureau), Liriomyza eupatoriana Spencer, L. demeijerei Hering, L. dracunculi Hering, L. strigata (Meigen), L. soror Hendel, L. tanaceti de Meijere, L. taraxaci Hering, Ophiomyia quinta Spencer (first recorded for the Palaearctic Region), Phytomyza petoei Hering and Ph. griffithsi Spencer) reared from 20 host plants were studied. A total of 38 host-parasitoid associations were analyzed, 31 of them were previously unrecorded. During this research, 17 Eulophidae parasitoid species (Cirrospilus viticola (Rondani), Chrysocharis pubicornis (Zetter-stedt), Ch. viridis Nees, Ch. crassiscapus (Thomson), Closterocerus tnfasciatus Westwood, Diglyphus crassinervis Erdos, D. chabrias (Walker), D. isaea Walker, D. poppoea Walker, D. pusztensis (Eras, Novicky), Minotetrastichus frontalis (Nees), Neochrysocharis aratus (Walker), N. formosa (Westwood), Pnigalio pectinicornis (Linnaeus), P. soemius (Walker), Pediobius metallicus (Nees) and P. cassidae Erdos)) were found. There are new parasitoid records for the pest species, Ch. horticola, A. nana and Ph. petoei. The number of ectoparasitoid species was 1.25 times greater than that of endoparasitoids in the parasitoid complexes, and the number of reared specimens of ectoparasitoids was 1.7 times greater than that of endoparasitoids. Dominant species of the parasitoid complexes of Agromyzidae were D. isaea (28.4%), Pediobius metallicus (14.5%), N. formosa (13.7%), and Pnigalio soemius (12.7%)