Abstract
A total of 47 species belonging to 46 genera, 34 subfamilies, 23 families and 7 orders of predator and parasitoid insects were collected and identified. The survey was conducted throughout the program held by the General Directorate of Agriculture-Duhok, in cooperating with the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences in Duhok Province, Kurdistan Region, Iraq from May 2013 to April 2014. The species hosts, collecting date, locality and distributions are given. The current checklist also included some species previously collected by other researchers in Duhok Province.
Highlights
Duhok Province (Kurdistan Region), located at the Iraqi-Turkey borders, is famous for its agricultural diversity that provides suitable environment for insect's reproduction and adaptation
A collection of 47 species belonging to 46 genera, 34 subfamilies, 23 families and 7orders of predators and parasitoids which were collected from 2013 to 2014 and the information about the collection and the related previous studies were listed alphabetically as below: Predators (A) Order, Coleoptera (1) Family, Anthribidae Billberg, 1820 Subfamily, Anthribinae Billberg, 1820 Anthribus fasciatus Forster 1770 Materials examined: 2 specimens, Akra District (Bijel), May 2009
This study is the result of the field survey carried out in Duhok province, Kurdistan regionIraq focuses on insect predators and parasitoids
Summary
Duhok Province (Kurdistan Region), located at the Iraqi-Turkey borders, is famous for its agricultural diversity that provides suitable environment for insect's reproduction and adaptation. Outbreaks of pest and natural enemy's populations are associated with changes in the ecological stability of ecosystems. The control of pest species is closely linked to their predation and parasitism by natural enemies that have occurred since the evolution of the first terrestrial ecosystems some 500 million years ago (Waage and Greathead, 1988). Natural enemies can effectively prevent outbreaks of crop pests and control their populations (Cracraft and Grifo, 1999), which play as a key component of a 'systems approach' to integrated pest management (Bale et al, 2008). The most important natural enemies belong to the insecta classwithin the orders Hemiptera (Anthocoridae, Miridae), Neuroptera (Chrysopidae, Conioterygidae), Diptera (Cecidomyiidae, Muscidae, Syrphidae), Coleoptera (Alleculidae, Anthribidae, Cantharidae, Coccinellidae, Cybocephalidae, Endomychidae, Nitidulidae, Staphylinidae and Tenebrionidae) and Hymenoptera (Braconidae, Platygastridae, Pteromalidae, Encyrtidae, Eulophidae, Aphelinidae) (Vacante and Bonsignore, 2017).
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