Dinocampus coccinellae (Schrank, 1802)

Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 149-156 : 150

Dinocampus coccinellae (Schrank, 1802)

Material examined: Province of Razavi Khorasan: Bojnord , 37°35′N 57°20′E, 1084 m, (2 ♀♀), August 2012 .

Distribution outside Iran: Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, UK, Uruguay, USA, Vietnam ( Yu et al. 2012).

Host records: Koinobiont endoparasitoid of adult Coccinellidae able to re-parasitize its host beetle (van Achterberg 2006). It is one of the best understood parasitoids of coccinellids ( Riddick et al. 2009). Reported as parasitoid of the following species: Sitona discoideus Gyllenhal, 1834 ( Coleoptera : Curculionidae ), Adalia bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) , A. decimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) , A. deficiens Mulsant, 1850 , Anatis labiculata (Say, 1824) , A. ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Brachiacantha ursine (Fabricius, 1807) , Coccinella spp. , Coelophora biplagiata (Schönherr, 1808) , C. inaequalis (Fabricius, 1775) , Coleomegilla maculata (DeGeer, 1775) , Cycloneda munda (Say, 1835) , C. sanguinea (Linnaeus, 1763) , Eriopis connexa Germar, 1824 , Exochomus quadripustulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) , Halyzia quatordecimguttata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Harmonia spp. , Hippodamia spp. , Illeis cincta (Fabricius, 1798) , Macronaemia hauseri (Weise, 1905) , Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius, 1781) , Micraspis discolor Fabricius, 1798 , Myzia oblongoguttata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Olla v-nigrum (Mulsant, 1866) , Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Subcoccinella vigintiduopunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758 ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ), Gelis areator (Panzer, 1804) ( Hymenoptera : Ichneumonidae ), Conura spp. , Dibrachys microgastri (Bouché, 1834) ( Hymenoptera : Pteromalidae ) ( Yu et al. 2012). Tobias (1971) reported a number of coccinellids ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) as hosts to this species: Coccinella quinquepunctata Linnaeus, 1758 , C. trifasciata Linnaeus, 1758 , C. septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 , Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773) , Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata Linnaeus, 1758 , Hippodamia amoena (Faldermann, 1835) , Brumus octosignatus (Gebler, 1830) . Adult parasitoid of Coccinella septempunctata Linnaeus, 1758 ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) ( Beardsley 1961; Bagheri 1998) and Hippodamia variegata (Goeze, 1777) ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) ( Tobias 1971; Tavoosi Ajvad et al. 2014). It was also reared from Coleophora inaequalis (Fabricius, 1775) ( Lepidoptera : Coleophoridae ) in Hawaii ( Beardsley 1961). In Australia , it was reported from Hippodamia convergens Guérin-Méneville, 1842 , H. quinquesignata (Kirby, 1837) , Coccinella californica (Mannerheim, 1843) , Coleomegilla maculata (De Geer, 1775) , Cycloneda sanguinea (Linnaeus, 1763) , C. trifasciata juliana Mulsant, 1850 ( Coleoptera : Coccinellidae ) ( Parrott 1953). In Brazil, it was reported in association with coccinellid species Coleomegilla maculata (De Geer, 1775) , Eriopis connexa (Germar, 1824) , and Olla v-nigrum (Mulsant, 1866) ( Silva et al. 2012) .