Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830

Ghahari, Hassan & Madl, Michael, 2017, An annotated catalogue of Iranian Aulacidae, Evaniidae and Gasteruptiidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea), Zootaxa 4338 (2), pp. 341-353 : 344

Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830

Evania caspia Eichwald, 1830 : Ghahari & Deans 2010: 295 (tax., East Azarbaijan (Ahar), Golestan (Gorgan), Mazandaran (Qaemshahr), Semnan (Damghan, Semnan), Tehran (Shahriyar)).

* Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Schletterer 1889: 128 (key), 130 (key), 138 (taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)), pl. 6 (figures 7a, b).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : de Dalla Torre 1902: 1080 (world catalogue).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Kieffer 1902: 3 (world catalogue).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Kieffer 1904: 387 (key, taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)).

Evania dimidiata dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Kieffer 1912: 65 (key), 81 (taxonomy, description female/male, Iran (without locality)).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Tirgari 1975: 57 (biology, Ardabil (Khalkhal), East Azarbaijan (without locality) , Golestan (Gorgan) , Guilan ( Bandar Anzali ) , Isfahan (Isfahan) , Mazandaran (Sari) , Qom (Qom) , Tehran (Tehran )) . Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Modarres Awal 1997: 273 (Golestan (without locality) , Markazi (without locality) , Tehran (without locality)).

Evania dimidiata Spinola, 1838 : Deans 2005: 35 (world catalogue).

* Evania hunteri Mani, 1943 : Ghahari et al. 2008: 701 (biol., Razavi Khorasan (Kashmar)). * Evania stenochela Kieffer, 1911 : Ghahari et al. 2008: 701 (biol., Golestan (Ali-Abad, Gonbad, Gorgan)). Host in Iran. Unknown.

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil ( Tirgari 1975), East Azarbaijan ( Ghahari & Deans 2008), Golestan ( Tirgari 1975; Modarres Awal 1997; Ghahari et al. 2008, 2014 as E. stenochela ; Ghahari & Dean 2010), Guilan ( Tirgari 1975), Isfahan ( Tirgari 1975), Mazandaran ( Ghahari & Deans 2010), Qom ( Tirgari 1975), Razavi Khorasan ( Ghahari et al. 2008, 2014 as E. hunteri ), Semnam ( Ghahari & Deans 2010), Sistan & Baluchestan ( Tirgari 1975; Modarres Awal 1997), Tehran ( Tirgari 1975; Modarres Awal 1997; Ghahari & Dean 2010).

General distribution. Evania caspia is recorded from Azerbaijan, Egypt, Georgia, Israel and Turkey. It is known also from the Afrotropical region ( Ethiopia, Sudan).

Comments. Stenopogon laevigatus (Loew, 1851) and Dysmachus dasyproctus Loew, 1871 ( Diptera : Asilidae ) have been recorded as the predators of E. caspia ( Ghahari et al. 2008, 2014). Evania caspia is is probably a parasitoid of Blatta orientalis (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Blattodea : Blattidae ) ( Deans 2005).