Pseudovipio castrator (Fabricius, 1896), 1986

Beyarslan, Ahmet, 2014, Checklist of Braconinae species of Turkey (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 3790 (2), pp. 201-242 : 236

Pseudovipio castrator (Fabricius, 1896)

Ichneumon castrator Fabricius, 1798 . 1–572.

Pseudovipio castrator: Tobias, 1986 . 85–149.

Synonyms: Bracon constantinensis (Strand, 1910) ; Ichneumon cuniculator (Rossi,1792) .

Hosts: Coleoptera , Buprestidae : Chrysobothris affinis (Fabricius, 1794) ; Curculionidae : Lixus juncii Boheman, 1835 ; Cerambycidae : Plagionotus arcuatus (Linné, 1758) . Lepidoptera , Amphipyrinae : Gortyna xanthenes Germar 1844 [ Cynara scolymus ].

Distribution in Turkey: Amanos Mountains ( Fahringer, 1922); Kayseri ( Fahringer, 1926); Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya, Erzurum, Icel, Kirklareli, Tekirdag ( Beyarslan, 1991); Bursa, Edirne, Erzurum, Kirklareli, Tekirdag ( Beyarslan & Inanc, 1994); Adana, Adiyaman, Antalya, Bursa, Canakkale, Edirne, Erzurum, Icel, Kirklareli, Tekirdag ( Beyarslan, 1999); Imbros, Tenedos ( Beyarslan et al. 2002b); Kastamonu, Sinop, Zonguldak ( Beyarslan et al. 2005); Tokat ( Beyarslan et al. 2008a); Erzurum ( Guclu & Ozbek, 2011); Ankara, Erzincan, Eskisehir, Isparta, Konya, Malatya, Sivas, Tokat ( Beyarslan & Cetin Erdogan, 2012); Mardin, Şanlıurfa (Beyaraslan et al. 2014).

Distribution: Palaearctic and Ethiopian.