Aleiodes esenbeckii (Hartig, 1838)

Beyarslan, Ahmet, Gadallah, Neveen S. & Ghahari, Hassan, 2017, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Microtypinae and Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 4291 (1), pp. 99-116 : 105

Aleiodes esenbeckii (Hartig, 1838)

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Samin 2015), Khorasan ( Samin et al. 2011).

General distribution. Palaearctic, Oriental. Afghanistan , Hungary, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, former Yugoslavia ( Yu et al. 2012), Austria, China, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Russia, Spain ( Yu et al. 2012; van Achterberg & Shaw 2016) , Croatia, Finland, Netherlands, Siberia, Switzerland (van Achterberg & Shaw 2016) , Italy ( Shenfelt 1975 as Rogas esenbeckii ; Yu et al. 2012), Turkey ( Beyarslan 2015).

Hosts. Lepidoptera—Endromidae: Endromis versicolora (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Yu et al. 2012) . Lasiocampidae : Dendrolimus sp.; Dendrolimus albolineatus Matsumura, 1921 ; D. pini (Linnaeus, 1758) ; D. sibiricus (Tschetverikov 1908) ; D. spectabilis (Butler, 1877) ; D. superans (Butler, 1877) ; D. tabulaeformis Tsai & Liu, 1962 ; van Achterberg & Shaw 2016); Cosmotriche lobulina (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) ; Dendrolimus punctatus (Walker, 1855) ( Yu et al. 2012) . Zygaenidae : Zygaena lonicerae (Scheven, 1777) ( Yu et al. 2012) .