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Issue: Vol. 3946 No. 4: 13 Apr. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-04-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.6
Page range: 577–582
Abstract views: 69
PDF downloaded: 3

First record of the family Heloridae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from Iran, with description of a new species

Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Iran.
Senior Researcher & Curator Hymenoptera, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Postbox 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.
Helorid wasps taxonomy identification key Iran

Abstract

For the first time in more than 100 years, a new western Palaearctic species of Heloridae is described. Specimens of Helorus alborzicus Izadizadeh, van Achterberg & Talebi sp. nov. and Helorus ruficornis Förster were collected from the Alborz province of Iran. An illustrated identification key for Western Palaearctic Heloridae is provided.