Maryam Asadi-Farfar - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.
Hossein Lotfalizadeh - Plant Protection Research Department, East-Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research & Education Center, AREEO, Tabriz, Iran.
Younes Karimpour - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.

Three species of the genus Inostemma Haliday (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae), i.e. Inostemma discessus Szelenyi, I. koponeni Buhl and I. contariniae Szelenyi are reported as new records for the Iranian fauna. Inostemma discessus was reared for the first time from Ephedra gall midge, Ephedromyia debilopalpis Marikovskij (Dip.: Cecidomyiidae) on Ephedra sp. (Plantae: Ephedraceae) in the northwest Iran. The Iranian species of the genus Inostemma were listed.

Platygastrinae, Gall midges, Host record, Fauna, Iran