Apanteles corvinus 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 : 8

Apanteles corvinus Reinhard, 1880

Distribution in Iran. Ilam ( Ghahari et al. 2011d), West Azarbaijan ( Žikić et al. 2014).

Distribution outside Iran. Austria ( Shenefelt 1972), Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan ( Yu et al. 2012), Switzerland ( Shenefelt 1972).

Host records. Hedya nubiferana , Coleophora ibipenella , C. serratella , Lyonetia clerkella and Paraswammerdamia lutarea ( Nixon 1973) . This species was introduced to Canada to control the birch casebearer moth Coleophora serratella ( Raske 1978) . It was also reported from Anthonomus pomorum ( Fulmek 1968) ; Bucculatrix bechsteiniella on Pyrus communis ; B. crataegi on Pyrus communis ( Balevski and Tomov 1997) ; Leucoptera malifolliella on Malus domestica ( Papp 1984) and on M. sylvestri ( Balevski and Tomov 1998) ; Lyonetia clerkella on Prunus persica ( Togashi 1981) and on Sorbus aucuparia ( Vidal 1993) ; L. prunifoliella on Malus sylvestri ( Balevski and Tomov 1997) ; Phyllonorycter oxyacanthae on Crataegus monogyna ( Shaw and Askew 1976) . Also, Yu et al. (2012) recorded from Phyllonorycter leucographella as host species. In Iran it has been reported from Leucoptera malifolliela on Malus domestica ( Žikić et al. 2014) .