Ehsan Rakhshani, Sedigheh Kazemzadeh, Petr Starý, Hossein Barahoei, Nickolas G. Kavallieratos, Aleksandar Ćetković, Anđelka Popović, lmran Bodlah, Željko Tomanović
Journal of Insect Science 12 (143), 1-26, (1 December 2012) https://doi.org/10.1673/031.012.14301
KEYWORDS: Trioxys metacarpalis n.sp., tritrophic associations
Aphid parasitoids of the subfamily Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of northeastern Iran were studied in this paper. A total of 29 species are keyed and illustrated with line drawings. The aphidiines presented in this work have been reared from 42 aphid host taxa occurring on 49 plant taxa from a total of 33 sampling sites. Sixty-six aphidiine-aphid-plant associations are presented. Trioxys metacarpalis sp. nov. from Chaitaphis tenuicaudata Nevsky (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Kochia scoparia, is described. The species diversity based on the comparative faunistic analysis is discussed.