Cotesia vanessae (Reinhard, 1880)

Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan & Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier, 2015, Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 4043 (1), pp. 1-69 : 25

Cotesia vanessae (Reinhard, 1880)

Distribution in Iran. Sistan & Baluchestan ( Khajeh et al. 2014), West Azarbaijan ( Karimpour et al. 2001).

Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( Yu et al. 2012), Eretria, Libya ( Nixon 1974).

Host records. Parasitoid of Simyra dentinosa ( Karimpour et al. 2001; Yu et al. 2012). It has been also reported as parasitoid of Vanessa sp., Argynnis sp., A. aglaja , Limenitis camilla , Nymphalis polychloros , Loxostege sticticalis , Macrothylacia rubi ( Shenefelt 1972; Yu et al. 2012), Vanessa urticae , Polygonia egea , Neptis sappho , Hadena oleracea , Notodonta ziczac, Amphidasis betularia ( Shenefelt 1972) .It was reported from Vanessa atlanta ( England) , V. cardui (north and east of Africa, Turkey), Spodoptera exigua ( Italy) , Spodoptera littoralis ( England) , Ochropleura praecox ( England) ( Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported Agalis io, A. urticae , Aletia litoralis , Apamea sordens , Argynnis aglaja , Autographa gamma , Bathythrix aerea , Calophasia opalina , Conura vinula , Cnaemidophorus rhododactylus , Cornutiplusia circumflexa , Discestra trifolii , Eligmodonta ziczac , Encrateola laevigata , Gelis agilis , Helicoverpa armigera , Heliothis viriplaca , Itoplectis maculator , Lacanobia oleracea , Lasiocampa trifolii , Lysibia nana , Macdunnoughia confusa , Mamestra brassicae , Nycteola revayana , Parexarnis fugax , Thaumetopoea processionea .