EryngiopusSummers is one of genera of the family Stigmaeidae and occur all over the world. The members of this genus are predators and feed on scale insects (Fan & Zhang 2005). Currently the family Stigmaeidae contains 32 genera (Khanjani et al.2012b), of which 10 genera are recorded from Iran namely: Agistemus Summers, 1960, Cheylostigmaeus Willmann, 1951, Eustigmaeus Berlese, 1910, Ledermuelleriopsis Willmann, 1953, MediolataCanestrini, 1889,Parastigmaeus Kuznetsov, 1984, Prostigmaeus Kuznetsov, 1984, Stigmaeus Koch, 1836, Storchia Oudemans, 1923 and Zetzellia Oudemans, 1927 (Khanjani et al.2012b). In this paper, the genus Eryngiopus is recorded for the first time from Iran and a new species described hereunder.
