Cotesia jucunda ( Marshall, 1885 )

Zargar, Mohammad, Gupta, Ankita, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Farahani, Samira, 2019, Three new species and two new records of the genus Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Iran, European Journal of Taxonomy 571, pp. 1-25 : 16

Cotesia jucunda ( Marshall, 1885)

Apanteles jucundus Marshall, 1885: 182 .

Microgaster nigrinervis Thomson, 1895: 2260 .

Material examined

IRAN – Khuzestan Province • 1 ♀; Andika, Doorab ; 32°12ʹ23.00″ N, 49°26′37.00″ E; 760 m a.s.l.; 6–20 Mar. 2017; TMUC-HBMC0056 • 1 ♀; Chezi ; 32°08ʹ02.78″ N, 49°38′30.56″ E; 650 m a.s.l.; 4–20 May 2016; ICAR-NBAIR/NIM/MICROG/COT/4516 • 2 ♀♀; Lali, Taraz ; 32°20ʹ49.70″ N, 49°05′11.31″ E; 390 m a.s.l.; 5–19 May 2017, 5–19 Jun. 2017; TMUC-HBMC0057-0058 • 1 ♀; Dobagh ; 31°31ʹ16.14″ N, 49°52′53.00″ E; 688 m a.s.l.; 4–18 May 2016; Malaise trap; citrus orchards; M. Zargar leg.; TMUC- HBMC0059 .

Distribution in Iran

Guilan ( Ghahari et al. 2012a), Markazi ( Ghahari et al. 2011d), Khuzestan (present study).

General distribution

Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia ( Yu et al. 2016).

Host records

Lepidoptera : Geometridae ( Shenefelt 1972; Capek 1972; Yu et al. 2016), Nymphalidae , Pieridae ( Yu et al. 2016) .