Taxonomic and faunistic study of Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea) from Iran, with illustrated key to species

Aulacidae are parasitoids of wood-boring larvae of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, known in all zoogeographic regions of the World, except Antarctic. Two aulacids, Pristaulacus compressus (Spinola, 1808) and the rare Pristaulacus mourguesi Maneval, 1935, have been recently collected from Iran, the latte...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Zoosystematics and Evolution
Main Authors: Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa, Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2018
Subjects:
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Evanioidea
Aulacidae
Cephalornis
Coelenterata
Bilateria
Nephrozoa
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Circumscriptional names of the taxon under
Notchia
Carbotriplurida
Boltonocostidae
Circumscriptional names
Pterygota
Circumscriptional name
Basal
Eumetabola
Strashila incredibilis
Hymenopterida
Kulbastavia
Tiphiinae
Baissidae
Pristaulacus
Western Iran
wood-boring
parasitoid
illustrated key
Antarctic
Antarc*
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/1222595
https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.22501
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Summary:Aulacidae are parasitoids of wood-boring larvae of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, known in all zoogeographic regions of the World, except Antarctic. Two aulacids, Pristaulacus compressus (Spinola, 1808) and the rare Pristaulacus mourguesi Maneval, 1935, have been recently collected from Iran, the latter being a new record. Based on available data, the Iranian aulacid fauna includes five species within a single genus, Pristaulacus Kieffer 1900. A brief taxonomic treatment, as well as morphometric data and an illustrated key to species, are provided.

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