this report is part of a national project for gathering and classifying the arthropod seed feeders in different provinces of iran between 2008–2014. in this paper, nineteen host species with their areas of distribution are presented for twelve species of seed beetles (chrysomelidae: bruchinae). most of the identified host plants (84%) belong to the family fabaceae (leguminosae). in addition, al...

This study investigated the egg-laying behaviour of ectoparsitoid, Dinarmus basalis Rondani (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), females when faced with a prolonged deprivation of suitable hosts leading to extreme 'oviposition pressure'. The egg-laying behaviour of virgin D. basalis females was tested with Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae) hosts previously parasitized by the conspec...

Early body condition may be important for adult behavior and fitness, and is impacted by a number of environmental conditions and biotic interactions. Reduced fecundity of adult females exposed to larval competition may be caused by reduced body condition or shifts in relative body composition, yet these mechanisms have not been well researched. Here, body mass, body size, scaled body mass inde...

The DNA barcode of Bruchidius varius collected from Dilek Peninsula and Büyük Menderes Delta National Park (DPNP) in Aydın province Turkey is given for the first time. As barcode, mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) with a length approximately 628 bp sequenced an illustrative presented along nucleotide composition target gene location. Nucleotide sequence includes 38.63% T, 27.98...

Three species, Rhaebus gebleri Fischer von Waldheim, 1824, Rh. lukjanovitschi Ter-Minassian, 1973 and solskyi Kraatz, 1879, belong to the genus 1824 of tribe Rhaebini from subfamily Bruchinae. mannerheimi Motschulsky 1845, syn. nov., komarovi Lukjanovich 1939, nov. amnoni Lopatin et Chikatunov 2000 are synonymous with gebleri. Key species distribution maps given. There first records for Saratov...