Ormyrus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1804)

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

8. Ormyrus nitidulus (Fabricius, 1804)

Material examined: East-Azarbaijan, Arasbaran, ex Andricus curtisii (= mediterraneus), 1Ψ. Same locality, ex A. quercustozae , 3Ψ & 1ɗ. Same locality, ex Cynips . quercusfolii on Quercus . macranthera , 1ɗ. Kermanshah, Gahvareh, ex A. coriarius on Q. petraea , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex Aphelonyx persica on Q. brantii , 3Ψ. Same locality, 11ɗ & 21Ψ. Kordestan, Marivan, ex C. quercus , 6Ψ & 7ɗ. Same locality, ex Andricus askewi , 3Ψ. Same locality, 11Ψ & 12ɗ. Same locality, ex A. galeatus , 6Ψ & 1ɗ. Same locality, ex A. lucidus , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex A. mayri , 56Ψ & 20ɗ. Same locality, ex A. truncicolus , 1ɗ. Lorestan, Ghalai, ii.2003, ex Andricus curtisii on Q. infectoria, (E. Azizkhani) , 2Ψ & 1ɗ. Same locality, 37Ψ & 17ɗ. Lorestan, Sar Pol Zahab, 1Ψ. Lorestan, Javanrode, 6Ψ & 1ɗ. West-Azarbaijan, Piran-Shahr, ex A. caputmedusae , 1Ψ. Same locality, A. polycerus , 6Ψ. Same locality, ex A. pseudoaries on Q. petraea and Q. macranthera , 1Ψ. West-Azarbaijan, Sar-Dasht, ex A. megalucidus , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex A. sternlichti , 1ɗ. Same locality, ex A. tomentosus , 1Ψ. Same locality, ex Cynips divisa , 4Ψ.

Many specimens reared from a range of galls of Andricus , Aphelonyx and Cynips (Cynipidae) in the provinces of West-Azarbaijan, Lorestan, Kordestan and Kermanshah (Table 1). Exceptionally, Askew et al. (2006) mention an association of this species with the cynipid wasp Diplolepis rosae (L.) on Rosa .

Ormyrus nitidulus is widely distributed in the West Palaearctic region ( Noyes 2011) although it has not been mentioned for Middle East countries ( Narendran et al. 2007). It is possible that the morphospecies O. nitidulus is a complex of cryptic species, as has been reported for other parasitoids of the oak gallwasp community ( Nicholls et al. 2010). It displays a moderate amount of variation and molecular analysis reveals a number of clades, but we have not been able to completely match the molecular clades to morphological forms.