Hyssopus Girault, 1916

Jafarlu, Majid, Hassan-Pashai-Mehr, Maliheh, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Asghari-Tazehkand, Susan & Karimpour, Younes, 2024, Hyssopus geniculatus (Hartig) (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) a parasitoid of Anarsia eleagnella Kuznetsov (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) in Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (1), pp. 1-10 : 4

Genus Hyssopus Girault, 1916

Type species: Hyssopus thymus Girault, 1916 ; Syn.: Hyssopiscus Ghesquière, 1946 ; Crataepoides Masi, 1955 .

Diagnosis. Body black to blackish green with metallic luster ( Figs 2, 3). Notauli complete; mesoscutum hemispherical with two pairs of setae on the mid lobe ( Fig. 3C); mesosoma dorsally with fine reticulation on its entire surface ( Figs 3C, 3F); mesoscutellum with distinct and complete submedian grooves that bend inward in the posterior part and nearly meeting each other. Propodeum with a simple median carina and without plicae or costula ( Figs 3C, 3F). Antenna with four funiculars in both male and female ( Fig. 2); anterior margin of clypeus not produced and only slightly rounded ( Fig 3B); pronotum long and semi-globose with rounded front part ( Figs 3A, 3C, 3D).

Remarks. The genus Hyssopus has 23 species worldwide, 12 of which are distributed in the Palaearctic region ( Noyes, 2019), and two in Iran ( Hesami et al., 2018). Species of this genus are primary ectoparasitoids of microlepidopterans larvae such as Coleophoridae , Gelechiidae , Pyralidae , and Tortricidae ( Bouček, 1988) , and in general, its primary hosts are lepidopterous larvae in concealed situations ( Burks, 2003).