Nasrin Shahbazvar - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
Reza Hosseini - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
Shahab Manzari - Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.
George Japoshvili - Institute of Entomology, Agricultural University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.

In the present study, which is based on the material collected from Southern part of Caspian Sea, Iran during ۲۰۱۳- ۲۰۱۶, one parasitoid species of the genus Coccobius Ratzeburg was identified as Coccobius pistacicolus (Yasnosh, ۱۹۶۸) (Hym: Aphelinidae). This species, which is reported for the first time from Iran, was collected in Rasht, Guilan province, and reared from Lepidosaphes pallida (Maskell) (Hem.: Diaspididae) on Ficus carica (Moraceae). Diagnostic characters of C. pistacicolus are provided.

Aphelinidae, Coccobius pistacicolus, Guilan province, Lepidosaphes pallida, Iran