Cheiropachus quadrum (Fabricius, 1787) Ichneumon quadrum Fabricius 1787:270, Lectotype ♂. – ZMUC, Germany. Material examined. 7♀♀, Iran: North Khorasan province, Maneh and Semelghan, Qaleh- Khan (37°30′36″N, 56°46′16″E), Malaise trap, 19.07.2018, 2♀♀, Z. Rahmani leg.; Isfahan province, Najafabad (32°37′59.13″N, 51°21′29.18″E), Malaise trap, 13.09.2013, 2♀♀, E. Nader leg.; South Khorasan province, Pokht (32°35′01″N, 59°37′21″E), Malaise trap, 02.06.2021, 3♀♀, F. Minab leg. Distribution in the Middle East: Egypt (Ismail et al., 1988), Iran (Lotfalizadeh & Gharali, 2008; Mitroiu et al., 2011; Rahmani et al., 2021; current study), Israel (Mendel, 1986), Lebanon (Herting, 1973), Morocco (Graf, 1977; Mouna, 2013), Tunisia (Jardak et al., 2002; Zeiri et al., 2013), Turkey (Herting, 1973; Western part – Öncüer, 1991; Eastern part – Özgen, 2019). Zoogeographical distribution: Eastern Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oriental, Western Palaearctic.

Published as part of Rahmani, Zahra, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein & Mokhtari, Azizollah, 2022, Annotated checklist of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in the Middle East and North Africa, pp. 265-377 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2) on page 301, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.8.2.265, http://zenodo.org/record/17020966