Lissonota palpalis THOMSON, 1889

Mohammadi, Abbas, Salah-A & Lotfalizadeh, Hosseinali, 2016, Ichneumonid parasitoids of Tortrix viridana (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in the west of Iran, Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (1), pp. 681-691 : 682

* Lissonota palpalis THOMSON, 1889

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: IRAN, Kurdistan, Baneh (N= 36° 08′ E = 45° 02′, 1450 m a.s.l.), 1♀, 11.5.2013, ex. larva of T. viridana , Leg. S. Kamangar.

G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, United Kingdom ( YU et al. 2012) and Iran (new record).

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s: Pronotum with yellow stripes; ovipositor length equal to Metasoma; fore wing without an areolet; body with abundant red pattern; claws simple; frons flat; vertex normal, without carinae or striations ( KASPARYAN 1981).

H o s t s: Ypsolopha parenthesella (LINNAEUS, 1761) (Lep.: Ypsolophidae ), Thaumetopoea processionea (LINNAEUS, 1758) (Lep.: Thaumetopoeidae ) ( YU et al. 2012) and T. viridana (new host record).

R e m a r k: Lissonota palpalis was a primary solitary larval koinobiont endoparasitoid of T. viridana .