Cotesia praepotens ( Haliday, 1834 )

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, European Journal of Taxonomy 571, pp. 1-25 : 17

Cotesia praepotens ( Haliday, 1834)

Microgaster praepotens Haliday, 1834: 252 .

Microgaster placida Haliday, 1834: 251 .

Apanteles memnon Nixon, 1974: 465 , fig. 39.

Apanteles acutivalvis Balevski, 1980: 97 .

Apanteles beshtaui Tobias, 1986: 716 , fig. 232:18.

Material examined

IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 2 ♀♀; Baghmalek, Dobagh ; 31°31ʹ16.14″ N, 49°52′53.00″ E; 688 m a.s.l.; 4–18 May 2016; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/4516 • 1 ♀; Ghale tol; 31°37ʹ49.70″ N, 49°52′53.35″ E; 880 m a.s.l.; 22 Jun.–6 Jul. 2017; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/22617 • 1 ♀; Andika, Doorab ; 32°12ʹ23.00″ N, 49°26′37.00″ E; 760 m a.s.l.; 5–19 May 2017; TMUC-HBMC0060 • 1 ♀; Lali, Taraz ; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 6–20 Jul. 2016; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC-HBMC0061 .

Distribution in Iran

Qazvin ( Ghahari et al. 2011c), Khuzestan (present study).

General distribution

Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldoava, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia (Yu etal. 2016).

Host records

Lepidoptera : Elachistidae Bruand, 1851 ( Yu et al. 2016), Geometridae ( Shenefelt 1972; Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2016), Gracillariidae Stainton, 1854 , Lymantriidae Hampson, 1893 , Notodontidae Hampson, 1893 , Yponomeutidae Stephens, 1829 ( Yu et al. 2016).