First report of the occurrence of the genus Pantolyta Foerster, 1856 (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from Iran

نویسندگان

1 Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, Iran.

2 Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Tehran, Iran.

3 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

5 Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, 117997, Russia

6 Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization, Tehran, Iran.

doi
10.52547/jibs.7.1.51
چکیده

During our studies on the family Diapriidae, two species of the genus Pantolyta Foerster, 1856 were collected and identified for the first time from Iran: Pantolyta pallida Kieffer, 1908 and Pantolyta nixoni Macek, 1993. A key to the Iranian species of the genus Pantolyta and diagnostic characters for both newly recorded species are provided along with illustrations. In addition, distribution map of the two species in the Palaearctic region is presented.