Apanteles carpatus (Say, 1836)

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 carpatus (Say, 1836)

Distribution in Iran. Isfahan ( Ghahari et al. 2011c), Mazandaran ( Ghahari et al. 2010a), Sistan & Baluchestan (Samin 2015).

Distribution outside Iran. Alaska ( Fernández-Triana 2010), Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Moldova, Mongolia, Mozambique, New Zealand, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Turkmenistan, USA, UK, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, former Yugoslavia ( Yu et al. 2012).

Host records. Muesebeck (1920) and Papp (2007) reported Tinea pellionella and Trichophaga tapetzella as hosts of A. carpatus as well as Tineola biselliella and T. fuscipunctella ( Nixon 1965) . In the USA it has been reported from Trichophaga tapetzella and Tinea pellionella ( Muesebeck 1920) , while in Japan reported from T. pellionella ( Watanabe 1937) . Yu et al. (2012) recorded A. carpatus from the following lepidopteran hosts: Acrobasis caryivorella , Dendrolimus sibiricus , Doloessa viridis , Epanaphe carteri , Grapholita funebrana , G. molesta , Gypsonoma minutana , Illiberis sinensis , Lymantria dispar , Niditinea spretella , Oecia oecophila , Orgyia leucostigma , Pectinophora gossypiella , Phereoeca uterella , Phthorimaea operculella , Praeacedes atomosella , Protolychnis maculate , Pyralis farinalis , Sparganothis pilleriana , Tegulifera audeoudi , and Tinea columbariella . It has also been reported from Diptera : Kiefferia pericarpiicola and Musca domestica , and from Hymenoptera : Baryscapus tineivorus and Polistes annularis ( Yu et al. 2012) .