Document Type : Agricultural Entomology
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Within the recently collected chalcidoid wasps from Kerman Province, we found a male and a female of eulophids belonging to the subfamily Entedoninae. In this subfamily, the genus Entedon is a large genus, but only two species Entedon biroi Erdös (3) and E. ergias Walker (1) have been reported from Iran. The second species has been reported from Iran under E. leucogramma(synonym of E. ergias).These small wasps were collected on April 21, 2008 at agricultural garden of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. Specimens were mounted on point cards. Identification was made by third author as Entedon thomsonianus Erdös, 1944. This species belongs to the sparetus-group (2).
The species belong to the genus Entedon develop as endoparasitoids of phytophagous Coleoptera. Entedon thomsonianus was described from Hungry where it had been found parasitizing the Buprestidae and Curculionidae. This species also occurs in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Ukraine (4). This new report extends distribution range of the species to Iran. Some morphological characters of E. thomsonianus that can help to separate it from other closely allied species are: without front sulcus, fore tibiae with one pale frontal longitudinal stripe, anterior margin of clypeus truncate, slender femura, apical margin of fore wing bare, male antennal funicle 3-segmented and clava 2-segmented.
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