* Bracon (Bracon) nigratus Wesmael, 1838 (Figs 7 A–C) Material examined: Iran, Hormozgan province, Queshm Island, Ramkan (26° 52′ 25.27″ N, 56° 01′ 7.33″ E, 34 m a.s.l.), 21-02-2012, 1 ♀, Minab-Chelo (27° 10′ 30.39″ N, 57° 01′ 9.79″ E, 16 m a.s.l.), 25-02 -2013, 1 ♀, Qale Qazi (27° 26′ 53.33″ N, 56° 32′ 53.03″ E, 42 m a.s.l.), 17-04-2011, 1 ♀, Leg. A. Ameri. Diagnosis: Head dark brown to black and polished,1.95 X as broad as long in dorsal view; (Fig. 7 A), length of malar space 0.30 X as longitudinal eye diameter, antenna 34-segmented, approximately 0.7–0.8 X as long as body, oral cavity 2.25 X as wide as its distance from eye; mesonotum smooth, propleuron in lateral view straight and smooth, propodeum sculptured in middle, without a medio-longitudinal carina above lunule, slightly rugulose; fore wing marginal cell terminating near the wing apex, second submarginal cell short, 3-SR vein 1.2–1.3 X as long as 2-SR vein; r-m vein equal to r vein (Fig 7 B); first metasomal tergite broad, length of second tergite 2.5 X as long as its maximum apical width, densely rugulose; ovipositor approximately half as long as metasoma (Fig. 7 C); body generally brown, propodeum and first tergite dark brown; last tergites with black median spots (Fig 7 A). General distribution: Eastern Palaearctic (Russia), Western Palaearctic (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia (Yu et al. 2012).

Published as part of Ameri, Ali, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Beyarslan, Ahmet, Kamali, Karim & Rakhshani, Ehsan, 2014, Study of the genus Bracon Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Southern Iran with description of a new species, pp. 353-380 in Zootaxa 3754 (4) on pages 362-363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/285429