Pristaulacus barbeyi ( Ferriere , 1933) #

Moghaddam, Mostafa Ghafouri & Turrisi, Giuseppe Fabrizio, 2018, Taxonomic and faunistic study of Aulacidae (Hymenoptera, Evanioidea) from Iran, with illustrated key to species, Zoosystematics and Evolution 94 (1), pp. 95-108 : 100

Pristaulacus barbeyi ( Ferriere, 1933) #

Odontaulacus barbeyi Ferrière, 1933: 141, Holotype ♀ and paratype ♂. - Algeria, Babor ( MNHN).

Distribution.

Algeria, Greece, Morocco, Spain, Turkey ( Turrisi 2007) and Iran ( Ghahari 2012; Turrisi 2013a, b, c).

Distribution in Iran.

West Azarbaijan province ( Ghahari 2012: DU).

Diagnosis.

P. barbeyi is a small to medium-sized species, with body length (excluding ovipositor) of 6.7-11.8 mm, fore wing length 5.1-8.1 mm; ovipositor length 1.3 × fore wing length (holotype), but variable length among specimens from Turkey. It is readily distinguished by the shape of the head with a very narrow cerciniform occipital carina (width less than 0.2 × ocellus diameter), rounded latero-ventral margin of pronotum without tooth-like processes, tarsal claw bearing two tooth-like processes along the inner margin, and a short and stocky petiole.

Hosts.

Ghahari (2012) mentioned an unknown Buprestidae as host of this species in Iran, living on Abies .