Opius (Ilicopius) pulchriceps Szepligeti, 1898

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 : 20-21

Opius (Ilicopius) pulchriceps Szepligeti, 1898

Distribution in Iran. East Azarbaijan (Rastegar et al. 2012), Guilan ( Ghahari et al. 2012b as Opius pulchriventris ).

Distribution outside Iran. Austria ( Fischer 1963, 1997b, 1980 as Opius pulchriventris ; Jiménez-Peydró 1983a as Opius pulchriventris ; Avinent and Jiménez 1987 as Opius pulchriventris ; Fischer and Koponen 1999 as Opius pulchriventris ; Yu et al. 2012), England, France, Germany, former Czechoslovakia, Poland ( Jiménez-Peydró 1983a as Opius pulchriventris ; Avinent and Jiménez 1987 as Opius pulchriventris ; Fischer and Koponen 1999 as Opius pulchriventris ; Yu et al. 2012), Finland, Kazakhstan, Russia, Switzerland ( Fischer and Koponen 1999 as Opius pulchriventris ; Yu et al. 2012), Italy, Moldova ( Yu et al. 2012), Korea ( Papp 1981b as Opius affectus ; Fischer 1984 as Opius pulchriventris ; Fischer and Koponen 1999 as Opius pulchriventris ; Yu et al. 2012), Spain ( Jiménez-Peydró1983a as Opius pulchriventris ; Yu et al. 2012), Switzerland (van Achterberg 2014b as Phaedrotoma pulchriceps ), Turkey ( Fischer and Beyarslan 2005b; Beyarslan and Fischer 2011, 2013 all as Opius pulchriventris ; Yu et al. 2012; Beyarslan 2015 as Phaedrotoma pulchriventris ).

Host records. Phytomyza horticola Goureau, 1851 , Liriomyza strigata Meigen, 1830 ( Avinent and Jiménez 1987; Yu et al. 2012). In Finlad, it is reported from several agromyzid species ( Diptera ): Amauromyza verbasci (Bouché, 1847) on Verbascum thapsiforme Schrad , Phytomyza agromyzina Meigen, 1830 , Phytoliriomyza hilarella (Zetterstedt, 1848) on Pteridium aquilinum (L.) ( Fischer and Koponen 1999; Yu et al. 2012).