Homoporus febriculosus (Girault, 1917)

Figs 11–12

Material examined

IRAN – West-Azarbaijan Province • 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Urmia, Kelïsä Kandï; 37º29′ N, 45º01′ E; 1600 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; M.-D. Mitroiu det.; ex Phragmites australis; HMIM • 8 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Urmia, Häshtïan; 37º47′ N, 44º39′ E; 1680 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; M.- D. Mitroiu det.; ex Phragmites australis; HMIM • 2 ♀♀; Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. –early May 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; M.-D. Mitroiu det.; ex Phragmites australis; CBGP • 1 ♀, same collection data as for preceding; HMIM

Remarks

Homoporus febriculosus is a Palaearctic species that is distributed from UK to Turkey and also reported from Canada (Noyes 2020). It is known as a parasitoid of some Diptera ( Agromyzidae, Cecidomyiidae, Chloropidae) and Hymenoptera ( Braconidae Latreille, 1829, Cephidae Newman, 1834 and Eurytomidae) and in our rearing, it seems to be parasitoid of Tetramesa spp. ( Eurytomidae) and Lipara spp. ( Chloropidae) associated with P. australis .

All the characters of the sampled specimens well match those reported by Gahan (1933) with the following variations: much larger, body length of females vary from 3.3 to 3.8 mm and males from 2.5

to 3.17 mm vs female 2–2.8 mm and males 1.2–2.3 mm (Gahan 1933); head and mesosoma dark, with slight metallic greenish-blue to violet tinge versus dark metallic green (Gahan 1933).