Cotesia cynthiae (Nixon, 1974) Fig. 4 Apanteles cynthiae Nixon, 1974: 499. Diagnosis Antenna 1.1× as long as body, penultimate segment of antenna 2.0× as long as wide; width of face 1.2× as long as height (Fig. 4A); POL:MOD:OOL 25: 13:25; width of head in dorsal view 1.9× as long as height (Fig. 4B); mesonotum coarsely reticulate-punctate to rugose (Fig. 4C); scutellum rugosepunctate; 1–R1 1.5× as long as pterostigma, 3.0 × as long as distance from end of 1–R1 to tip of radial cell; pterostigma 3.2× as long as wide (Fig. 4D); metacoxa coarsely rugose; metasoma posteriorly compressed laterally (Fig. 4F); first tergite broadening posteriorly, medial length as long as apical width, rugose; second tergite as long as third tergite, rugose (Fig. 4E); ovipositor sheath 0.3× as long as metabasitarsus; hypopygium 0.5 × as long as metatibia (Fig. 4F); legs reddish brown; body black except third tergite. Material examined IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 3 ♀♀; Lali, Taraz; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 4–18 Mar. 2016, 3–17 Apr. 2016; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0049-0051 • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 3–17 Apr. 2016; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/3416. Distribution in Iran Khuzestan (present study). New record for Iran. General distribution Austria, Bulgaria, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Turkey (Yu et al. 2016). Host record Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Yu et al. 2016).

Published as part of Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 571 on page 13, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.571, http://zenodo.org/record/3526880