Sympiesis sericeicornis (Nees)

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76. Sympiesis sericeicornis (Nees)

Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Har Mermon, 1000m, M.T., 23.ix.1997 (L. Friedman); 1 ♀, Bar’am, Forest, 670m, 30°02’N; 35°25’E, M.T., 22.xi.2006 (W. Kuslitzky); 4 ♀, Meron Field School, M.T., 6.iv.2007 (T. Levanony); 1 ♀, Har Hermon, 1700m, 32°59’N; 34°24’E, M.T., 20.vi.2007 (T. Levanony); 31 ♀, 7 ♂, Har Hermon, 1700m, sweeping, 17.v.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Mt. Carmel, Nahal Oren, sweeping, 14.iv.2006 (A. Freidberg); 3 ♀, 1 ♂, Hosha’ya, ex. Ph. quercifoliella on Quercus ithaburensis 17.iii.2013 (W. Kuslitzky).

Hosts. Ectoparasitoid of Curculionidae ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ); Agromyzidae (Diptera) , Heterarthrus sp. ( Hymenoptera : Tenthredinidae ) ( Thompson 1955), and Eriocraniidae , Gracillariidae , Nepticulidae ( Gates et al. 2002) .

Distribution. Israel ( Bouček & Askew 1968); Palearctic ( Bouček & Askew 1968; Trjapitzin 1978; Boyadzhiev 2006).