Peristenus rubricollis (Thomson, 1892)

Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Achterberg, Kees Van, 2016, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Euphorinae, Gnamptodontinae, Helconinae, Hormiinae and Rhysipolinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 4072 (1), pp. 1-38 : 9

Peristenus rubricollis (Thomson, 1892)

Distribution in Iran. Iran (no specific locality) ( Khanjani 2004 as Peristenus conradi ; Fallahzadeh and Saghaei 2010).

Distribution outside Iran. Austria ( Craig and Loan 1984), Bulgaria, Finland, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Netherlands ( Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ), Canada, USA ( Goulet and Mason 2006; Yu et al. 2012), Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan ( Tobias 1986), Germany, Switzerland ( Carl and Mason 1996; Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ), Hungary ( Papp 2002, 2008; Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ), Poland ( Loan and Bilewicz-Pawińska 1973, Bilewicz-Pawińska 1977, 1982; Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ), Sweden ( Loan and Bilewicz-Pawińska 1973; Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ), Turkey ( Drea et al. 1973; Yilmaz et al. 2010; Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ), Ukraine ( Tobias 1986; Yu et al. 2012 as Leiophron (Peristenus) rubricollis ).

Host records. Adelphocoris lineolatus (Goeze) ( Khanjani 2004; Yu et al. 2012), A. seticornis Fabricius , Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), L. rugulipennis Poppius ( Hemiptera : Miridae ), Empoasca solana Delong ( Hemiptera : Cicadellidae ) ( Yu et al. 2012). In North America and in Europe, Peristenus rubricollis has been reared from species of two genera of the Mirini ( Hemiptera : Miridae ), mainly nymphs of Adelphocoris seticornis Fabricius and A. spp., and occasionally from those of Lygus rugulipennis Poppius and Lygus spp. In North America this species has been reared from nymphs of A. lineolatus (Goeze) and L. lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvoit) ( Hemiptera : Miridae ) ( Goulet and Mason 2006). In Europe, this species is found to attack the important Lygus pests: L. rugulipennis Poppius ( Bilewicz-Pawińska 1977, 1982; Craig and Loan 1984), Trigonotylus caeletialium (Kirkaldy) ( Bilewicz-Pawińska 1982) , Polymerus unifasciatus (Fabricius) ( Drea et al. 1973) and Adelphocoris lineolatus (Goeze) ( Coulson 1987) . It has also reared from Lygus sp. and Adelphocoris sp. in southern France, Turkey and Greece ( Coulson 1987). In Poland, it was reared from Lygus rugulipennis Poppius ( Bilewicz-Pawińska 1977, 1982), and from the same species in Turkey ( Drea et al. 1973), Switzerland and Germany ( Carl and Mason 1996). In Poland and Switzerland, it has been reported from Lygus pratensis (Linnaeus) and Adelphocorus lineolatus (Goeze) ( Hemiptera : Miridae ) ( Bilewicz-Pawińska 1977, 1982).