sphecidae is a large and important family of hymenoptera. all members of this family are presocial predators of other arthropods and play a role in the control of pest complex. in this study, sphecids were collected from east azerbaijan province using sweep net, malaise traps and yellow pan traps. twenty species of the family sphecidae (hymenoptera), belonging to subfamilies pemphredoninae, ast...

the list of ichneumonidae (hymenoptera: ichneumonoidea) of iran is updated. until now, 502 species belonging to 189 genera and 24 subfamilies are recorded. two subfamilies, cryptinae and ichneumoninae, are the most species-rich groups, while the subfamilies brachycyrtinae, collyriinae, cylloceriinae, hybrizontinae, mesochorinae, orthocentrinae and orthopelmatinae represented by only one species...

ants consume or store the honeydew which is secreted by aphids or other homopteran insects. major benefit of ant attendance for aphids is protection against natural enemies. a study was carried out during 2009-2010, to determine the mutualistic association between ants and aphids on different host plants in some parts of khuzestan and esfahan provinces. a total of 20 ant species belonging to 12...

during a faunal survey on the family tachinidae in fars province, six tachinid parasitoids belonging to the subfamilies tachininae and phasiinae were collected and identified. they are reported for the first time from iran. the species are as follows: linnaemya neavei curran, microcerophina planifacies kugler, phasia mesnili (draber-monko), catharosia flavicornis (zetterstedt), leucostoma enged...

five oppiid mite species (oribatida: oppiidae) belonging to three genera (corynoppia, ramusella and rhinoppia) are reported as new records for the mite fauna of iran. some of their morphological features and distributions in the world are presented. a key to the subfamilies, genera and species of all iranian oppiid mites is given.

the ichneumonidae fauna of kerman province, iran, was surveyed in april 2013 to june 2014. in total, 35 species belonging to 22 genera and eight subfamilies were collected and identified, of which cryptus armator fabricius, 1804; enizemum schwarzi diller, 1987 and barichneumon gaullei berthoumieu, 1903 are new records for thefauna of iran. an updated list of ichneumonid species for kerman provi...

this paper reports the occurrence of the hymenoterous parasitoids of the beet moth, scrobipalpa ocellatella boyd larvae in iran for the first time. two braconid species of microchelonus subcontractus abdinbekova and bracon intercessor nees were collected from the larvae of s. ocellatella in the sugar beet fields located in ray, the southern district of tehran. these parasitoids are belonging to...

the results of faunistic survey of jewel beetles (coleoptera: buprestidae) carried out in kurdistan province of iran are presented. 30 species belonging to two subfamilies (buprestinae and agrilinae) and 8 genera were collected. of these 1 species is new for iranian fauna and 19 species are new for kurdistan province.

mutualistic interaction between aphids and ants is one of the classical examples of mutualism. the current study was carried out during 2013-2014 in golestan province, north-eastern iran, to investigate the myrmecophilous aphids and their relationships with ants. in this study, 11 ant species representing seven genera and two subfamilies associated with 12 aphid species belonging to two subfami...

Nine hundred eighty species belonging to 182 genera of 15 subfamilies of the family Dolichopodidae were investigated to study antennal morphology. Length measurements of scape, pedicel, postpedicel and arista and height measurements of postpedicel bases were performed, and 4 ratios were selected. Use of morphometric characteristics of Dolichopodidae antennae allows meaningful distinctions betwe...