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

• 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

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.