Abstract
This article reveals the first record of the parasitoid wasp, Monodontomerus obscurus Westwood (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) from Iraq. A total of 27 specimens were emerged from mud nests of sphecoid wasp of Sceliphron sp. (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae), that collected from a wall at a residential garden in Dohuk province. A short morphological description is presented.
Highlights
Monodontomerus obscures Westwood, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) was first described by Westwood (1833) from Britain; it is widely distributed in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Grissell, 1995; Zerova and Seryogina, 2002; Noyes, 2017)
M. obscures has not been recorded from Iraq until now; it is present in two neighboring countries; Turkey (Oncuer, 1991) and Iran (Lotfalizadeh and Gharali, 2005), and we are presenting here for the first time the occurrence of this parasitoid species in Iraq from specimens have been recently obtained from mud nests of sphecoid wasp, Sceliphron sp. from Dohuk province
The nests were found in sheltered places attached to electrical wires and walls in residential garden during the month of May, 2013 and 2014 in Dohuk province north of Iraq; these nests were taken to the laboratory and placed in plastic boxes in order to get either the adult sphecoid wasp or the parasitoid
Summary
Monodontomerus obscures Westwood, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Torymidae) was first described by Westwood (1833) from Britain; it is widely distributed in the Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Grissell, 1995; Zerova and Seryogina, 2002; Noyes, 2017). New Record of the Parasitoid Wasp Monodontomerus obscurus
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