Desmiostoma parvulum (Wesmael, 1835)

Material collected: Iran, Qazvin province: Zereshk Road (36°21′39″N, 50°03′55″E, 1541 m a.s.l.), 20.V.2011, 2 ♀, leg.: M. Khayrandish.

Diagnosis (Female): Body length 1.7 mm, black, and smooth (Fig. 5A); antenna with 22 antennomeres; temples as long as length of eye in dorsal view (Fig. 5B), roundly narrowed (Fig. 5C); head half as long as its width in dorsal view (Fig. 5C) notauli only in anteriorly distinct (Fig. 5D); mesosoma 1.3× its maximum height (Fig. 5E); precoxal sulcus weakly sculptured (Fig. 5E); pterostigma cuneate (Fig. 5F); length of hind femur 5.0× its maximum width; first metasomal tergite 1.3× as long as its width at apex (Fig. 5G); metasoma black; legs yellow; ovipositor sheaths short and not extended beyond apex of metasoma.

Distribution in Iran: Qazvin province (current study).

General distribution: Afrotropical, Nearctic, Oceanic, Western Palaearctic (Yu et al. 2016) and Iran (new record).