Cotesia rubecula (Marshall 1885)

Distribution in Iran. Hamadan (Khanjani 2006 as Apanteles rebecula).

Distribution outside Iran. Australia (Parrott 1953; Shenefelt 1972), Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Ukraine, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012), Scotland, Tasmania (Shenefelt 1972).

Host records. Pieris rapae, P. napi, P. brassicae, Pieris sp., Hemaris fuciformis, Laothoe populi, Macrothylacia rubi, Plutella xylostella (Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012). Nixon (1974) reported it as a solitary parasitoid of Pieris rapae . Yu et al. (2012) reported also Acrolyta nens, Agasthenes varitarsus, Autographa gamma, Baryscapus galactopus, Conura side, Conura torvina, Cotesia glomerata, Gelis aerator, Hellula rogatalis, Hyles euphorbiae, Isdromas lycaenae, Lysibia nana, Mamestra brassicae, Mesochorus anomalus, M.discitergus, M. gemellus, M. olerum, M. orbitalis, Pediobius sp., Pontia protodice, Stictopisthus bilineatus, Tetrastichus sinope, Totrix viridana, Trichomalopsis braconophaga .