Chelonus (Chelonus) inanitus (LINNÉ 1767)

N. S, Ghahari, H., W, Ascogaster, P, Chelonus & W, Phanerotoma, 2013, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Cheloninae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1921-1943 : 1926

Chelonus (Chelonus) inanitus (LINNÉ 1767)

Cynips inanita LINNAEUS 1767 - Syst. nat. 1 (2): 919,?

Chelonus inanitus NEES VON ESENBECK 1834 - Hym. Ichn. Affin. Mon. 1: 299.

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Alborz ( SHOJAI 1998), Isfahan (BAGHERI & BASIRI 2004), Kermanshah (GHAHARI & FISCHER 2012), Mazandaran ( GHAHARI et al. 2009d), Tehran ( MODARRES AWAL 1997), West Azerbaijan ( ALIZADEH & JAVAN MOGHADDAM 2004; KHANJANI 2004, 2006), Iran (no locality cited) ( AUBERT 1966; DAVATCHI & SHOJAI 1969; SHENEFELT 1973; KHANJANI 2004, 2006).

D i s t r i b u t i o n o u t s i d e I r a n: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A. [introduced], United Kingdom, former Yugoslavia ( SHENEFELT 1973), Turkey ( KOHL 1905; BEYARSLAN 1985; BEYARSLAN et al. 2002a, b; AYDO DU & BEYARSLAN 2002, 2007, 2011), Japan ( WATANABE 1937).

H o s t r e c o r d: Solitary egg-larval parasitoid which lays its eggs into eggs of Spodoptera littoralis ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) ( TOMKINS et al. 1987; WHARTON et al. 1998) and Spodoptera exigua ( MODARRES AWAL 1997; SHOJAI 1998; KHANJANI 2004); KHANJANI (2006) reported Phthorimaea operculella (ZELLER) ( Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae ), Agrotis segetum (SCHIFF.) and Spodoptera exigua ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) as the hosts of C. inanitus (L.). AYDO DU & BEYARSLAN (2007, 2011) reported 16 lepidopteran species ( Noctuidae , Phycitidae , Pyralidae , Pyraustidae and Tortricidae ) as the hosts of Chelonus inanitus (L.). This species was also reported as a parasitoid of Etiella zinckenella (TREITSCHKE) (Pyralidae) ( BALEVSKI 1998). WATANABE (1937) reported C. inanitus as the parasitoid of a number of hosts in Japan including, Oligia literosa HOWARD, Longalatedes elymi TREITSCHKE , Sesamia aemulana SCHÄGFFER and S. tripoliana BARRETT ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ).