Chalcidoid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Torymidae and Eupelmidae) of mantids (Mantodea) oothecae in Iran

• Published in: Phytoparasitica Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 487 - 499
• Main Authors: Mirzaee, Zohreh, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein, Sadeghi, Saber
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01-04-2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Ecology; Eggs; Eupelmidae; Hymenoptera; Life Sciences; Mantidae; Mantodea; Museums; New records; Original Article; Parasitism; Parasitoids; Plant Pathology; Plant Sciences; Species; Torymidae; Mantodea egg case; Torymidae; Eupelmidae; Parasitism rate
• ISSN: 0334-2123; 1876-7184
• DOI: 10.1007/s12600-021-00965-1

In total 23 oothecae of seven species of mantids from six genera
Bolivaria
Stål, 1877 (Rivetinidae),
Elaea
Stål, 1877 (Gonypetidae),
Empusa
Illiger, 1798 (Empusidae),
Hierodula
Burmeister, 1838 (Mantidae),
Holaptilon
Beier, 1964 (Gonypetidae),
Iris
Saussure, 1869 (Eremiaphilidae) were collected. About 69% of collected oothecae of mantids were parasitized by the Hymenoptera families, Torymidae and Eupelmidae. Here, we report seven parasitoid species of Mantodea oothecae,
Eupelmus
(
Macroneura
)
vesicularis
(Retzius, 1783) (Eupelmidae),
Iridophaga lichtensteini
Picard, 1933 (Torymidae),
Iridophagoides petiolatus
Erdös, 1964 (Torymidae),
Microdontomerus
sp. (Torymidae),
Monodontomerus obscurus
Westwood, 1833 (Torymidae),
Palachia pulchra
Bouček, 1969 (Torymidae),
Podagrion pachymerum
(Walker, 1833) (Torymidae) of Mantodea oothecae. Of which,
Ichnanthus petiolatus
and
P. pulchra
are new records for Iranian fauna. The species
E.
(
M.
)
vesicularis
,
I. petiolatus
,
Microdontomerus
sp.,
M. obscurus
,
P. pulchra
are reported as parasitoids of mantid oothecae for the first time. This is the first attempt to study parasitoids of seven species of mantids oothecae. The parasitism rate of different mantids oothecae was varied from 38 to 92% in different species.