Cheiloneurus paralia (Walker, 1837)

Fig. 3

Material examined

IRAN • 1 ♀; West-Azarbaijan Province, Urmia, Hesar-e Türkmän; 37º26′ N, 45º13′ E; 1293 m a.s.l.; Apr. 2017; Y. Karimpour leg.; ex Phragmites australis; HMIM .

Remarks

Our specimen fits well the description given by Claridge (1958), but the head exhibits a faint metallicgreen tinge (Fig. 3A, C). Body mainly rufo-fuscous (Fig. 3A), funicle with three white segments, F6 black (Fig. 3B); mesonotum entirely greenish; fore wings mainly fuscous except basally and distally (Fig. 3D); propodeum and abdomen dark with blue-green reflections; scape approximately 5× as long as wide, funiclar segments almost quadrate, club slightly widened, truncate apically (Fig. 3B); scutellar ‘hair-brush’ well developed (Fig. 3C); gaster short, as long as thorax.

This species is widely distributed in the Palaearctic region (Noyes 2020) and in Iran (Fallahzadeh & Japoshvili 2010). Cheiloneurus paralia is a parasitoid of different mealybug families ( Asterolecaniidae Cockerell, 1896, Cerococcidae Balachowsky, 1942, Coccidae Stephens, 1829, Eriococcidae Cockerell 1899, Kermesidae Kosztarab, 1996 and Pseudococcidae) on Poaceae such as Festuca rubra L. (Claridge 1958; Noyes 2020). Therefore, it may be associated with a pseudococcid species on P. australis . It has been reported on Peliococcus kimmericus (Kiritshenko, 1940) on Lactuca serriola L. ( Asteraceae) in Iran (Fallahzadeh et al. 2006).