Ormyrus orientalis Walker, 1871

Lotfalizadeh, Hosseinali, Askew, Richard R., Fuentes-Utrilla, Pablo & I, Majid Tavak O L, 2012, The species of Ormyrus Westwood (Hymenoptera: Ormyridae) in Iran with description of an unusual new species, Zootaxa 3300, pp. 34-44 : 42

9. Ormyrus orientalis Walker, 1871

Material examined: Esfahan, Esfahan, ex Acanthiophilus helianthi on safflower Carthamus oxycantha M.B, summer.2008, (M.R. Sabzalian), 2Ψ. East-Azarbaijan, Marand, Koshksaray, 28.ix.2003, ex Tephritidae on Asteraceae, (H. Lotfalizadeh) , 7Ψ & 1ɗ. East-Azarbaijan, Khosro-shahr, 1346m, N 37º 58' 28" & E 46º 02' 55", 15.vii.2008, Malaise trap, (H. Lotfalizadeh), 2Ψ & 2ɗ. Same locality, safflower experimental field, (H. Lotfalizadeh), 2Ψ & 6ɗ. Chahar-mahal-e-Bakhtiari, Gachsaran, summer.2009, (K. Saeedi), 1ɗ. Qazvin, Qazvin, swept from sugar beet, vi.2007, (R. Arbab-Tafti), 1Ψ. Qazvin, Alamut, summer 2009, pan trap, (B. Gharali), 1Ψ. Khorasan-Razavi, Akhlamd, Chenaran, 1292m, apple orchard, N 36º 38' 52" & E 58º 58' 7", 3.viii.2009, (A. Hasani), 5Ψ.

Ormyrus orientalis has been previously reported from Iran (OILB 1971; Bouček 1977) and is a common and widely distributed species in the country. A wide host range has been reported for this species but in Iran it is mostly a parasitoid in fruit fly ( Tephritidae ) galls. We have seen specimens reared from capitulae of Asteraceae attacked by the fruit fly Urophora Robineau-Desvoidy , specimens reared from Acanthiophilus helianthi (Rossi) on safflower Carthamus oxycantha , and a single female swept in a field of sugar beet in Qazvin. Ormyrus orientalis is also associated with Cynipidae and Eurytomidae , and Movahedi-Fazel et al. (1998) reported it attacking the agromyzid fly Phytomyza orobanchiae Kaltenbach. It was collected commonly in the northwest of Iran (East-Azarbaijan Province) by Malaise trap and sweeping net. It is a common species in the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic regions ( Noyes 2011).