Report of five species of Pteromalidae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) new for the Iranian fauna

Pteromalidae (Hym.: Chalcidoidea) is one of the largest families of parasitoid wasps. This family includes some important natural enemies of many harmful insects in orders such as Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera and Hemiptera. This research was conducted in Kurdistan Province (in the West of Iran) in 2010 and 2011. Five species of pteromalid wasps has been collected as new records from Iran: Asaphes vulgaris Walker, 1934, Halticoptera longipetiolus Hedqvist, 1975, Oodera monstrum (Nikol’skaya, 1952), Stenoselma nigrum Delucchi, 1956 and Conomorium amplum Walker, 1935.