* Bracon (Orthobracon) exhilarator Nees, 1834 (Figs 17 A–D)

Material examined: Iran, Hormozgan province: Queshm Island, Ramkan (26° 52′ 25.27″ N, 56° 01′ 7.33″ E, 34 m a.s.l.), 13-06-2012, 1 ♀, 21-02-2012, 1 ♂, 27-04-2012, 1 ♀, O 2-04-2012, 1 ♀, 17-05-2012, 1 ♀, 19-03-2012, 1 ♀, 21-02-2012, 1 ♀, 03-04-2012, 1 ♀, Minab, Chelo (27° 10′ 30.39″ N, 57° 1′ 9.79″ E, 16 m a.s.l.), 20-03 -2012, 4 ♀, Geno (27° 28′ 53.23″ N, 56° 18′ 27.03″ E, 680 m a.s.l.), 20-03-2012, 2 ♀, Leg. A. Ameri.

Diagnosis: Head dark brown and polished, 1.9 X as broad as long in dorsal view; length of malar space 0.35 X as longitudinal eye diameter, antenna 31-segmented, slightly shorter than body; mesonotum polished, propodeum smooth, without median carina, propleuron straight in lateral view and smooth; fore wing marginal cell elongate, terminating near the apex of the wing, second submarginal cell elongate, r-m vein 0.7 X as long as r vein, 3-SR vein about as long as 2-SR vein (Fig. 17 B); length of first abdominal tergite 1.3 X as long as its apical width, second tergite with longitudinal striateiform sculpture (Fig. 17 C); ovipositor approximately 0.5 X as long as of metasoma (Fig. 17 C); body dark reddish brown, head, propodeum, tergite I and medio-dorsal line of metasomal tergites dark brown to black (Fig. 17 A).

General distribution: Eastern Palaearctic (China, Korea, Mongolia, Russia), Western Palaearctic (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine) (Yu et al. 2012).