Earinus elator ( FABRICIUS 1804)

N. S, Ghahari, H., F, Bassus, E, Camptothlipsis, S, Coccygidium & F, Cremnops, 2013, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Agathidinae and Brachistinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1873-1901 : 1888

Earinus elator ( FABRICIUS 1804)

Banchus elator FABRICIUS 1804: 128 ; Microdus nitidulus NEES 1814: 187 ; Microdus thoracicus NEES 1834: 143 ;? Agathis major FONSCOLOMBE 1846: 39 ; Earinus nitudilis (NEES) REINHARD 1867: 351; Earinus thoracicus (NEES) SHENEFELT 1970: 407 .

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: East Azarbaijan ( GHAHARI & FISCHER 2011a), Golestan ( GHAHARI et al. 2011a).

D i s t r i b u t i o n o u t s i d e I r a n: Widespread over most of the northern Palaearctic region ( SHARKEY 1996), Austria, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, UK ( NIXON 1986; YU et al. 2012), Azerbaijan, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, former Yugoslavia (YU et al. 2012), Caucasus to Far East in southern Siberia ( TOBIAS 1986 as E. nitidulus (NEES)) , Central and South USSR, Western Europe ( TOBIAS 1995 as E. thoracicus (NEES)) , Croatia ( PAPP 2010; YU et al. 2012), Europe ( SZÉPLIGETI 1904 as E. nitidulus ), France ( SZÉPLIGETI 1904 as A. major ; YU et al. 2012), Japan ( SHARKEY 1996), France ( FONSCOLOMBE 1846 as Agathis major ).

H o s t r e c o r d: Parasitoid of Agrochola circellaris (HUFNAGEL) , A. lota (CLERCK) on Salix caprea, Atethmia centrago (HOWARTH) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) ( NIXON 1986; SHARKEY 1996)), Aconita lucida (HUFNAGEL), Dichonia convergens (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), Alsophida aescularia (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER), Lycia hirtarius CIERCK ( Lepidoptera : Geometridae ), Gracillaria syringella (FABRICIUS) ( Lepidoptera : Gracillariidae ) ( TOBIAS 1986; YU et al. 2012), Atethmia ambusta (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER) , Conistra vaccinii (LINNAEUS) , Lithophane ornitopus (HUFNAGEL) , Orthosia stabilis (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) (YU et al. 2012).