First report of two parasitengone larvae on mantids Bolivaria brachyptera, and Rivetina inermis (Insecta: Mantodea) from Iran

Until now, larvae of 23 species of the genus Eutrombidium Verdun, 1909 have been found associated with orthopterans species worldwide (Feider 1977; Southcott 1993; Saboori et al. 2000; Saboori and Nemati 2001; Haitlinger 2003; Mayoral and Barranco 2004; Felska et al. 2018). Only a few species have been reported from mantids (such as E. feldmanmuhsamae Feider, 1977 on Rivetina baetica Rambur, 1839 from Cyprus and Israel (Feider 1977), E. robauxi Southcott, 1993 on Geomantis larvoides Pantel, 1896 from Greece and Turkey (Southcott 1993), E. sorbasiensis Mayoral & Barranco, 2004 on Iris oratoria (Linnaeus, 1758) from Portugal and Spain (Haitlinger 2007), E. trigonum (Hermann, 1804) on Mantis sp. from Germany (Oudemans 1912). Moreover, all of the Eutrombidium species that have been reported from Iran, mostly collected on Orthoptera, Acrididae and Gryllidae (Karimi Iravanlou et al. 2000; Saboori et al. 2000; Saboori and Nemati 2001; Azimi et al. 2011)....