Pristaulacus galitae (Gribodo, 1879) #

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 galitae (Gribodo, 1879) #

Aulacus galitae Gribodo, 1879: 339, Holotype ♀. - Tunisia, Galita Island (CPTO).

Distribution.

Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Canary Islands (Tenerife), Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece (including Crete and Rhodos), Hungary, Iran, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Morocco, Poland, Romania, Russia (westernmost area), Slovakia, Spain, Tunisia (including Galita Island), Turkey, Ukraine and former Yugoslavia ( Turrisi 2007, 2013a, Ghahari 2012, Huflejt and Wiśniowski 2012).

Distribution in Iran.

East Azarbaijan province ( Ghahari 2012: DU).

Diagnosis.

P. galitae is a medium-sized species with a body length of 8.0-11.2 mm (excluding ovipositor), fore wing length 4.5-7.8 mm. It is distinguished by the combination of the following features: shape of the head, with rounded profile of temple, occipital carina moderately wide (0.5 × OD), one anterior tooth-like process on each side of latero-ventral margin of pronotum, ovipositor length 1.0-1.2 × fore wing length.

Hosts.

Ghahari (2012) mentioned specimens reared in Iran from Trichoferus griseus # (Fabricius, 1792) ( Coleoptera, Cerambycidae ) feeding on common fig, Ficus carica L. ( Moraceae).