taxonID	type	description	language	source
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	description	(Figure 1)	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype ♀, Northeast of Isfahan, Shahinshahr & Komshecheh, 13. vi. 2015, H. Rakhshani (card mounted); – Paratypes 2 ♀, 1 ♂, same data as holotype (slide mount- ed); 2 ♂, same data as holotype (card mounted, one individual missing head). All material deposited in the collection of the Institute of Entomology, Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi (IEAUG).	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Copidosoma isfahan sp. n. is close to the following species: C. charon Guerrieri & Noyes, 2005, C. filicorne (Dalman, 1820) and C. fulgens Sharkov, 1985, howev- er it differs from these species by the characters given in Table 1.	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	description	Description. Female. Length 1.34 - 1.4 mm (1.44 - 1.5 mm including exserted part of ovipositor). Holotype 1.4 mm (1.5 mm). – Body black; head with shiny golden-green metallic reflection; pronotum, mesoscutum, axillae similar colouration as head; scutellum with shiny purple-silver metallic reflection; propodeum, metanotum, gaster with shiny golden-green metallic reflection; mesopleuron with purple-silver metallic reflection; tegullae and legs almost all white, only mid and hind coxa dark, with some metallic reflection; wings hyaline. Head about two times as wide as frontovertex; frontovertex 1.2 x as long as wide; scape about 4 x as long as wide; mandible tridentate; pedicel plus funicle 1.65 x as long as head wide; clava longer than F 4 - 6; occiputal margin sharp; metasoma slightly longer than mesosoma and almost 2 x as long as broad; mesoscutum almost 0.7 x as long as broad; scutellum almost as long as or slightly longer than broad; sculpture on mesoscutum and scutellum little different, on the mesoscutum with round- ed polygonal cells, scutellum with little elongated, but with wide cells similar to that of mesoscutum; metasoma with ovipositor straight, and exserted part about 0.2 - 0.23 x as long as metasoma (holotype 0.23) and as long as or very slightly longer than basitarsus; hypopygium reaching apex of gaster. Relative measurement: HW (maximum head width) 19; FV (minimum frontovertex width) 10; POL (posterior ocellar line) 4; AOL (distance between posterior and anterior ocelli) 3; OOL (ocular-ocellar line) 1; OCL (occipital-ocellar line) 1.5; OD (greatest diameter of an ocellus) 2; EL (maximum eye length) 11; MS (malar space, i. e. shortest distance from the eye to mouth margin) 7; SL (scape length) 13, SW (maximum scape width) 2; FWL (maximum forewing length) 55; FWW (maximum forewing width) 25. Male. 1.18 - 1.28 mm. Colouration as female.	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	biology_ecology	Biology. Gregarious endoparasitoid of Altenia mersinella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) on Pistacia vera (Anacardiaceae).	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Iran.	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
038387FAFFA2FF9CFF6BFAE3FD4CC4C4.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The name is after the collecting site name of the city Isfahan, Iran. The city was a capital of Persia during the XI-XVIII centuries.	en	George Japoshvili, Hamid Rakhshani, Jahangir Khajehali (2016): Zoology in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 62 (3): 261-264, DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202909
