Proctotrupes brachypterus (Schrank, 1780)

Izadizadeh, Mohammad, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Kolyada, Victor A. & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2016, First record of the family Proctotrupidae (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from Iran, with five new species records, Turkish Journal of Zoology 40 (1), pp. 27-34 : 30

Proctotrupes brachypterus (Schrank, 1780)

Material examined: 2 ♂♂; Iran, Alborz province, Chalous Road, Sarziarat (35°55′10.38″N, 51°06′51.24″E, 1980 m a.s.l.), 06-VII-2010, 1 ♂, 25-X-2010, 1 ♂; leg. A. Nadimi .

Diagnosis: Male ( Figure 5a ): Length of body 6.5–7.3 mm; clypeus about 2.9 as wide as long; sides of pronotum without a median hairless area; surface of propodeum with reticulation and laterally with longitudinal carina ( Figure 5b ); forewing venation as in Figure 5c , radial vein moderately curved.

Distribution: Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland ( Townes and Townes, 1981; He and Fan, 2004; Johnson, 2013), and Iran (new record).

Biology: This species is a larval endoparasitoid of Zabrus tenebrioides (Goeze, 1777) and Harpalus rufipes (De Geer, 1774) ( Coleoptera : Carabidae ) ( He and Fan, 2004).

Figures

Figure 5. Proctotrupes brachypterus (Schrank, 1780): a) lateral habitus of male; b) mesosoma, dorsal view; c) fore wing venation.