Diadegma longicaudatum HORSTMANN, 1969

Mohammadi, Abbas, Salah-A & Lotfalizadeh, Hosseinali, 2016, Ichneumonid parasitoids of Tortrix viridana (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae) in the west of Iran, Linzer biologische Beiträge 48 (1), pp. 681-691 : 683

* Diadegma longicaudatum HORSTMANN, 1969

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: IRAN, Kurdistan province, Baneh (N= 36° 08′ E = 45° 02′, 1450 m

a.s.l.), 131♀, 11.5.2013, ex. larvae of T. viridana ; Marivan, Colit (N= 35° 41′ E = 46° 18′, 1569 m

a.s.l.), 1♀, 18.5.2013, ex. pupa of T. viridana Leg. S. Kamangar. G e n e r a l d i s t r i b u t i o n: Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Romania ( YU et al. 2012) and Iran (new record). D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s: Posterior margin of 7th tergite of metasoma barely cut ; ovipositor sheath longer than the first metasomal segment and also the hind tibia; head and metasoma without yellow patterns; hind coxa black; fore wing with areolet; head strongly narrowed posteriorly; areola of propodeum with parallel side edges; main segments of flagellum black; hind tibia distinctly black with a white band in the middle and base; femura red; palps, mandibles and tegulae yellow ( KASPARYAN 1981).

H o s t s: PISICA (2005) reared D. longicaudatum on T. viridana in Romania. Trichopsyche fusca (HAWORTH, 1809) and Bijugis silvicolella SIEDERB. (Lep.: Psychidae ); Lobesia (Polychrosis) botrana (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER, 1775) (Lep.: Tortricidae ); Plutella xylostella (LINNAEUS, 1758) (Lep.: Plutellidae ) are known as other hosts of this species ( YU et al. 2012).

R e m a r k s: Diadegma longicaudatum was a primary, solitary koinobiont endoparasitoid of T. viridana . This species was a larva-pupal parasitoid.