Document Type : Pest Management

Authors

• Hossein Lotfalizadeh
• Babak Gharali

Abstract

Four species of fruit flies (Dip.: Tephritidae), Acanthiophilus helianthi (Rossi), Chaetorellia carthami Stackelberg, Terellia luteola (Wiedemann), Urophora mauritanica Macquart, and the safflower gall wasp, Isocolus tinctorius Melika & Gharali (Hym.: Cynipidae) are serious pests of safflower fields in Iran. Twelve species of hymenopterous parasitoids of these pests were reared and some of their morphological and biological data were presented. These parasitoids belong to the families Eulophidae, Eurytomidae, Ormyridae, Pteromalidae, Torymidae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) and Braconidae. Two species, Pronotalia carlinarum (Szelényi & Erdös) (Eulophidae) and Pteromalus albipennis Walker (Pteromalidae) are recorded for the first time from Iran. Association of Bracon luteatorSpinola, Colotrechnus viridis (Masi), Microdontomerus annulatus (Bouček), Pronotalia carlinarum, and Pteromalus albipennis with safflower fruit flies, and the association of Ormyrus gratiusus (Förster) (Hym.: Ormyridae) with the safflower cynipid gall wasp are newly recorded. An illustrated key is provided for the adult parasitoids. 

Keywords

• Hymenoptera
• safflower pest
• fruit flies
• gall wasp
• Iran