Opius ferrugator (Goureau, 1862)

Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan, Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier & Fischer, Maximilian, 2016, Updated checklist of Iranian Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 4066 (1), pp. 1-40 : 12

Opius ferrugator (Goureau, 1862)

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Ghahari and Fischer 2011 as Opius magnus ), Guilan ( Ghahari et al. 2012b as Opius magnus ), West Azarbaijan (Rastegar et al. 2012 as Opius magnus ).

Distribution outside Iran. Austria ( Fischer 1958a, 1967a, 1980, 1981, 1983a as Opius magnus, 1984 , 1997 as Opius magnus ; Tobias 1977; Papp 1979b; Hellrigl 1997 as Opius magnus ; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012), Finland ( Fischer and Koponen 1999 as Opius magnus ; Yu et al. 2012), Georgia ( Yu et al. 2012), Germany ( Fischer 1983a as Opius magnus, 1984 , 1997 as Opius magnus ; Papp 1979b; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Belokobylskij et al. 2003; Yu et al. 2012), Hungary ( Fischer 1983a as Opius magnus, 1984 as Opius magnus, 1997 ; Papp 1979b, 1981; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012), Italy ( Fischer 1980, 1981, 1983a as Opius magnus, 1984 as Opius magnus, 1997 ; Monaco 1984; Frey 1989; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012), Kazakhstan ( Fischer 1983a; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012), Poland ( Fischer 1983a as Opius magnus, 1984 , 1997 as Opius magnus ; Tobias 1977; Papp 1979b; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012), Russia ( Tobias 1977 as Opius sayanicus ; Tobias 2000; Fischer 1983a; Yu et al. 2012), Switzerland ( Hoffmeister 1990; van Achterberg 2014b as Utetes ferrugator ), Turkey ( Yildirim et al. 2010; Beyarslan and Fischer 2011, 2013 all as Opius magnus ), Ukraine ( Fischer 1983a; Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012).

Host records. Rhagoletis sp. ( Diptera : Tephritidae ) (Ghahari and Fischer 2011). Yu et al. (2012) reported the following tephritid species ( Diptera ) as hosts for this species: Anomoia purmunda (Harris, 1780) , Carpomya schineri (Loew, 1856) , Rhagoletis laternata (Fallen, 1820) , R. berberis Curran, 1932 , R. cerasi (L., 1758), R. meigenii (Loew, 1844) and Trypeta spp. In Europe, it has been reared from Rhagoletis infesting cherries, Berberis , Rosa and Anomoia purmunda (Harris, 1780) infesting Crataegus (Hoffmeister 1992; Yu et al. 2012).