A new species of Megalommum Szépligeti (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae); a parasitoid of the pistachio longhorn beetle (Calchaenesthes pistacivora Holzschuh; Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Iran

Abstract

A new species of the genus Megalommum Szépligeti (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae), reared from the pistachio longhorn beetle (Calchaenesthes pistacivora Holzschuh; Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is described and illustrated. The genera Curreia Ashmead, 1900 and Endovipio Turner, 1922 are new synonyms of Megalommum Szépligeti, 1900. Notes on the biology of M. pistacivorae sp. n. and a key to the West Palaearctic and Oriental species are added. The following new combinations are given: M. xanthoceps (Fahringer, 1928), comb. n., M. jacobsoni (Tobias, 1968), comb. n., M. ayyari (Watanabe, 1950), comb. n., M. philippinense (Baker, 1917), comb. n., M. dodecanesi (Ferrière, 1922), comb. n., M. ceresense (Turner, 1922), comb. n., M. inareatum (Granger, 1949), comb. n., M. antefurcale (Szépligeti, 1915) comb. n. and M. tibiale (Ashmead, 1906), comb. n. © C. van Achterberg, M.R. Mehrnejad.