Pteromalids from the Autonomous Community of Madrid (CAM) (Spain): Faunistics and catalogue (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae)

Abstract

Faunistic results are given, compiled from several works of contribution to the knowledge of the Pteromalidae (Hym., Chalcidoidea), carried out during more than ten years in the autonomous community of Madrid (CAM) (Spain). 350 level-species taxa found in the CAM, corresponding to 9166 individuals examined, are listed. The authors collected 97% of materials examined as a result of three sampling programs. Sweet net sampling of 59 selected sites of the CAM; intensive Malaise trapping of two natural areas in El Monte de El Pardo and Sierra de Guadarrama and sampling of the parasitoid pteromalid community associated to cynipid galls (Hym., Cynipidae). A catalogue of species of the CAM is presented. Contrasting with the 13 species in 12 genera previously recorded, 268 species in 92 genera and 11 subfamilies are catalogued. 30 genera and 155 species represent a new record the first published record for the Iberian Peninsula. The íbero-balear catalogue of the Pteromalidae is updated from 169 to 324 species. For each species listed a short comments are presented on its known geographic distribution, existing records from the IB and CAM and biological data. Finally, an appendix is presented including full record data of the materials studied.