Tavakoli Majid, Hosseini-Chegeni Asadollah, Stone Graham N, Sadeghi Seyed E, Atkinson R J, Melika George
Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Lorestan Agricultural Natural Resources Research Centre, Khorramabad, Iran..
Zootaxa. 2021 Mar 22;4948(3):zootaxa.4948.3.1. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.3.1.
We provide a checklist of the gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipinae) of Iran, and place these records in a biogeographical perspective on three spatial scales, comprising (i) the Western Palaearctic, (ii) Western Asia (Turkey, the southern Caucasus and the Middle East) and (iii) regions within Iran. We present distribution and biological data for 121 species in 24 genera, representing nine of the 12 known cynipid gall wasp tribes. The most species-rich tribe in Iran is the oak gall wasp tribe Cynipini, with 74 species and 11 genera. Cynipid species richness is highest in the central and northern Zagros, with a distinctively different fauna in the forests along the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. Of the species found in Iran, 63 have distributions that extend westwards far into Europe, and can be considered Western Palaearctic species. Twenty four species comprise a distinct eastern component within the Western Palaearctic, with distributions that include Iran and some or all of Turkey, the Middle East and the Caucasus. Twenty one species are apparently endemic to Iran, with distinct Zagros and Caspian components. We highlight biological and phylogeographic processes that may underlie these patterns.
我们提供了一份伊朗瘿蜂（膜翅目：瘿蜂科：瘿蜂亚科）的清单，并从生物地理学角度在三个空间尺度上审视这些记录，这三个尺度包括：（i）古北区西部，（ii）西亚（土耳其、南高加索和中东），以及（iii）伊朗境内的区域。我们展示了24个属中121个物种的分布和生物学数据，这些物种代表了已知的12个瘿蜂族中的9个。伊朗物种最丰富的族是栎瘿蜂族，有74个物种和11个属。瘿蜂物种丰富度在扎格罗斯山脉中部和北部最高，里海南岸森林中的动物区系明显不同。在伊朗发现的物种中，63种的分布向西延伸至欧洲，可被视为古北区西部物种。24个物种在古北区西部构成一个独特的东部类群，其分布包括伊朗以及土耳其、中东和高加索的部分或全部地区。21个物种显然是伊朗特有的，具有明显的扎格罗斯和里海类群。我们强调了可能构成这些模式基础的生物学和系统地理学过程。
