among the recently collected chalcidoid wasps in a rice field of eastern guilan province (coast of caspian sea), in july 2012, there was a specimen of pteromalidae belonging to the genus callitula. it was identified as callitula ferrierei (bouček, 1964). both genus and species are new record for iranian fauna. morphological characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded species ...

Based on recently collected Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), 13 species were identified from genera of Pteromalinae that are characterized in part by the female clava being distinctly acuminate or apically bearing a narrow spicula. Included are two species of Callitula Spinola, three species of Homoporus Thomson, seven species of Norbanus Walker, and one species of Rhaphitelus Walker. ...