A contribution to the Encarsia and Eretmocerus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae) species from the Arasbaran biosphere reserve and vicinity, northwestern Iran

The fauna of the Encarsia and Eretmocerus species (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Aphelinidae) from Arasbaran and its vicinity (Northwestern Iran) is studied in this paper. A total of 16 Encarsia species, including E. acaudaleyrodis Hayat, E. aleurochitonis (Mercet), E. aurantii (Howard), E. azimi Hayat, E. berlesei (Howard), E. citrina (Craw), E. elegans (Masi), E. elongata (Dozier), E. fasciata (Malenotti), E. formosa Gahan, E. inaron (Walker), E. lounsburyi (Berlese and Paoli), E. lutea (Masi), E. luteola Howard, E. mineoi Viggiani, E. perniciosi (Tower), and 4 Eretmocerus species (Eretmocerus cadabae Viggiani, Eretmocerus mundus Mercet, Eretmocerus nikolskajae Myartseva, Eretmocerus serius Silvestre) were collected.