Title of article :
Associated Bracon Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with flower-heads of Asteraceae in Iran
Author/Authors :
Pourhaji, Alireza Plant Protection Research Department - East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center - Agricultural Research, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran , Lotfalizadeh, Hossein Plant Protection Research Department - East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center - Agricultural Research, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran , Kasebi, Naser Department of Forest and Rangeland - East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research & Education Center - Agricultural Research, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran , Gharali, Babak Plant Protection Research Department - Qazvin Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center - Agricultural Research, AREEO, Qazvin, Iran , Ameri, Ali Department of Insect Taxonomy - Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
A study was conducted to determine the Braconinae (Hym., Braconidae)
parasitoid wasps, associated with Asteraceae in the northwest of Iran during 2013–2015.
Ten species were reared from flower-heads of Asteraceae: Bracon bipartitus Wesmael,
1838; B. leptus Marshall, 1897; B. luteator Spinola, 1808; B. mariae Dalla Torre, 1898; B.
pectoralis Wesmael, 1838; B. subrugosus Szépligeti, 1901; B. talyshicus Tobias, 1976; B.
trucidator Marshall, 1888; B. tschitscherini Kokujev, 1904 and B. urinator (Fabricius, 1798),
of which one species (i.e., B. talyshicus) is recorded for the first time from Iran. We also
reared some non-frugivorous Tephritidae feeding on the collected flower-heads that can
be possible host of these braconids. General distribution and biological associations for
all species that have been collected in this study are compiled.
Farsi abstract :
فاقد چكيده فارسي
Keywords :
Host , distribution , parasitoid , Braconinae , Iran
Journal title :
Journal of Insects Biodiversity and Systematics
