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Issue: Vol. 4058 No. 1: 15 Dec. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.1.3
Page range: 66–80
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

A review of the family Eulophidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Egypt,
with thirty three new records

Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University, Ulyanovsk, Russia.
Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University, Ulyanovsk, Russia.
Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys,), Al-Azhar University,P.O. Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt.
Biology Department, Faculty of Science, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia.
Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt.
Hymenoptera Parasitic wasps Eulophinae Entedoninae Tetrastichinae

Abstract

A checklist of Eulophidae (excluding Entiinae) is presented based primarily on a total of 155 specimens collected from 23 localities in Egypt during the period of April 2012 to June 2014, mostly by sweep net. Altogether, 55 species in 22 genera and 3 subfamilies (Entedoninae, Eulophinae and Tetrastichinae) are recorded, of which 6 genera (Dicladocerus Westwood, Euplectrus Westwood, Entedon Dalman, Neotrichoporoides Girault, Sigmophora Rondani and Sympiesis Förster) and 33 species (60%) are newly reported for Egypt. The valid name and world distribution of each species are given; local distributions and host records for species previously recorded from Egypt are also given. Most of the species have a distribution characterized as Palaearctic, Afrotropical, or Indo-Malayan. About 4% are cosmopolitan in distribution.