Genus Parapolybia Saussure

Parapolybia escalerae (Meade-Waldo)

Material examined: Bushehr: Dālaki, 600m., 30.V.2001, leg. Ebrāhimi/Mofidi; Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari: Lordegan, 24.VII.2006, Hosseini; Hormozgān: Bandar-e Lengeh, 50m., 28.V.2001, leg. Ebrahimi/Mofidi; Siāhu, Sikhorān, 830m., 25.V.2001, leg. Ebrahimi/Mofidi; Kermān, Bāft, Rābor, 2200m., 14.VI.1988, Hashemi/Badii; Lorestān: 65Km. N. Andimeshk, Pol-e Tang, 490m., 10.IV.1977, Pazuki/Hāshemi.

Remarks: One other species of Parapolybia has been described from Iran, but was not collected as part of the present study: P. persica (Meade-Waldo) .