Platygaster Latreille 1809
Creators: name: Asadi-Farfar, Maryam
name: Karimpour, Younes
name: Lotfalizadeh, Hossein
name: Buhl, Peter Neerup
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Platygastridae
Platygaster

description: Key to species of Platygaster from Iran
1. Mesoscutum with notauli .................................................................................................................. 2
– Mesoscutum without notauli ............................................................................................................. 9
2. Notauli complete or almost complete ............................................................................................... 3
– Notauli incomplete ............................................................................................................................ 7
3. T2 hardly striate ................................................................................................................................ 4
– T2 striate ........................................................................................................................................... 5
4. Occiput with oblique striation, medially almost longitudinal ............................................................ ................................................................................. Platygaster lotfalizadehi Buhl & Asadi sp. nov.
– Occiput without oblique striation ................................................ Platygaster breviscapa Buhl, 2009
5. Sternite 2 with a hump between hind coxae .................... Platygaster cf. gladiator Zetterstedt, 1838
– Sternite 2 without a hump between hind coxae ................................................................................ 6
6. Frons smooth; sternite 1 and base of sternite 2 without dense greyish pubescence ........................... .................................................................................................... Platygaster cf. dryope Walker, 1836
– Frons except upper lateral parts strongly transversely striate; first sternite and base of second sternite with dense greyish pubescence ............................................... Platygaster cf. rugosiceps Buhl, 1994
7. Notauli very short; T2 without striae ................................................ Platygaster nisus Walker, 1836
– Notauli indicated in about posterior half; T2 with striation .............................................................. 8
8. T1 with about ten rather uniform, fine longitudinal carinae, with a transverse depression around midlength. T2 striate to 0.5 of length, medially slightly shorter ............................................................... ............................................................................... Platygaster azarbaijanica Buhl & Asadi sp. nov.
– T1 with about six somewhat uneven, rather weak longitudinal carinae and a few even weaker additional ones. T2 weakly striate from basal foveae to 0.65 length of tergite, medially with four short striae to 0.15 of length ..................................... Platygaster karimpouri Asadi & Buhl sp. nov.
9. Base of T2 covered with dense, silvery setae ................................... Platygaster harteni Buhl, 2007
– Base of T2 without dense setae ....................................................................................................... 10
10. T2 striate in basal fovea to hardly one-third of length ...................... Platygaster arabica Buhl, 2007
– T2 very faintly striate in basal foveae to 0.4–0.5 of length ............ Platygaster cf. papei Buhl, 2007
description: Published as part of Asadi-Farfar, Maryam, Karimpour, Younes, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein & Buhl, Peter Neerup, 2021, Four new species and new records of Platygastrinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) from Iran, pp. 29-51 in European Journal of Taxonomy 750 on page 41, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.750.1359, http://zenodo.org/record/4770523