Parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) Of  The Seed Eater Weevil, Oxystoma Ochropus (Germar) (Coleoptera: Apionidae) In Northwestern Iran
Creators: name: LOTFALIZADEH, HOSSEIN
name: HASHEMI, SEYED-MEHDI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: parasitoid, Chalcidoidea, Apionidae, new record, trophic associations

description: Abstract

To study <em>Oxystoma ochropus</em> (Germar, 1818) parasitoids on grass pea (<em>Lathyrus sativus</em>), weekly sampling was done in Namin, Ardabil Province, Iran, during 2011, and samples were transferred to laboratory conditions. In this study, four parasitic wasps of three chalcidoid families were determined. These parasitoids were <em>Eupelmus microzonus </em>Förster, 1860 (Eupelmidae), <em>Eurytoma laserpitii </em>Mayr, 1878 (Eurytomidae), <em>Pteromalus chlorospilus</em> (Walker, 1834) and <em>Pteromalus sequester </em>Walker, 1835 (Pteromalidae). The species <em>P. chlorospilus</em> is a new record for Iranian fauna. In addition, all established trophic associations of the analyzed parasitoids with <em>O. ochropus </em>as their host are new for the investigated territory.
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