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Type: Article
Published: 2014-09-18
Page range: 585–590
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First record of the velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) reared from puparia of the ber fruit fly Carpomya vesuviana Costa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Iran

Department of Plant Protection, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia.
Department of Plant Protection, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
Department of Plant Protection, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
Mutillidae parasitoids Tephritidae Carpomya vesuviana new record Iran

Abstract

Two species of mutillids, Smicromyrme (Astomyrme) nikolskajae Lelej, 1985 and S. (Eremotilla) tekensis Skorikov, 1935, reared from puparia of ber fruit fly, Carpomya vesuviana Costa, in South Khorasan, Iran are recorded. Both mutillids are newly recorded from Iran. An overview of eight species of mutillids associated with six species of flies is given in the appendix.