Binodoxys angelicae (Haliday, 1833)

Fig. 1 (A, B)

Material examined: 1♀, Kharga Oasis (New Valley) [25°31’34.0”N 30°37’19.9”E], May, 2022, blue pan trap in Vicia faba; 1♀, same data but [25°14’02.8”N 30°31’32.2”E], in Vicia faba intercropped with Brassica napus .

Diagnosis. Body predominantly brown to dark brown, with three basal antennomeres, propodeum, petiole, legs yellowish; metasoma yellowish brown; antenna with 11 antennomeres; vein 1 RS of fore wing short, never reaching wing apex, veins RS +M and M+m-cu absent; pterostigma 2.3× as long as wide, distinctly longer than vein R, 1.35× as long as vein R1; petiole with distinctly separated primary and secondary tubercles, distance between them longer than distance between spiracles; hypopygium with two almost straight prongs that are slightly curved at apex; ovipositor sheath downcurved.

Distribution in the MENA: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.

Comments: Binodoxys angelicae is distributed in the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Yu et al. 2016; Rakhshani et al. 2019), occurs in almost all the North African and Middle Eastern countries. It has been recorded in association with V. faba in the following countries: in Iran recorded as a primary parasitoid of Aphis craccivora (Rakhshani et al. 2005; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013), as well as Turkey (Aşlan et al. 2004); and of Aphis fabae in Algeria (Starý et al. 1971), Iran (Talebi et al. 2009; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Barahoei et al. 2012; Modarres Awal 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013), Iraq (Al-Azawi 1970), as well as Lebanon (Tremblay et al. 1985). On the other hand, it was recorded as being a parasitoid of A. fabae in Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey by Starý (1976) without host plant data.

In Egypt, it has been recorded as a parasitoid of A. craccivora attacking faba beans in Mansoura Governorate (Ragab 1996, as Trioxys angelicae). It was also recorded parasitizing the grain aphid ( Sitobium avenae (F.)) attacking wheat, Triticum aestivum Linnaeus (Gadallah et al. 2017) .