Meteorus versicolor (Wesmael, 1835)

Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 149-156 : 152

Meteorus versicolor (Wesmael, 1835)

Material examined: Province of Mazandaran: Ramsar , 36°47′N 50°32′E, 9 m, (1 ♂, 3 ♀♀), August 2012 .

Distribution outside Iran: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan ( Yu et al. 2012).

Host records: Meteorus versicolor is recorded as a parasitoid of 14 different lepidopteran families. There are also some records indicating that the species parasitizes Ichneumonidae or different families of Chalcidoidea ( Yu et al. 2012). In the former USSR this species was reported as a parasitoid of Lymantria monacha Linnaeus, 1758 , L. salicis Linnaeus, 1758 , Euproctis chrysorrhoea (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Lepidoptera : Lymantridae), Thaumetopoea processionea Linnaeus, 1758 ( Lepidoptera : Thaumetopoeidae ), Cosmotriche lunigera Esper, 1784 ( Lepidoptera : Lasiocampidae ), Autographa gamma Linnaeus, 1758 , Nycteola asiatica (Krulikowsky, 1904) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) ( Tobias 1971). It was also bred from Goemetra papilionaria Linnaeus, 1758 ( Lepidoptera : Geometridae ), Arctornis l-nigrum (Müller, 1764) , Asteroscopus sphinx (Hufnagel, 1766) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) ( Marshall 1885). In Norway, it was reared from the larva of Anarta myrtilli (Linnaeus, 1761) and from the larva of Coranarta cordigera (Thunberg, 1788) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), both on Calluna vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1753) ( Stigenberg & Hansen 2013) . In addition, Stigenberg & Shaw (2013) reported this species from: Dichomeris ustalella (Fabricius, 1794) ( Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae ), Callophrys rubi (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Lepidoptera : Lycaenidae ), Macrothylacia rubi (Linnaeus 1758) ( Lepidoptera : Lasiocampidae ), Agriopis aurantiaria (Hübner, 1799) , A. marginaria (Fabricius, 1776) , Apocheima pilosaria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , Ematurga atomaria (Linnaeus, 1758) , Epirrita sp. , Eulithis testata (Linnaeus, 1761) , Hydriomena ruberata (Freyer, 1831) , Pachycnemia hippocastanaria (Hübner, 1799) , Thera juniperata (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Lepidoptera : Geometridae ), Thaumetopoea pityocampa Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 ( Lepidoptera : Thaumetopoeidae ), Agrochola haematidea (Duponchel, 1827) , Anarta myrtilli (Linnaeus, 1761) , Lycophotia porphyrea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , Orthosia miniosa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , Nycteola revayana (Scopoli, 1772) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), Orgyia antiquoides (Hübner, 1822) , O. dubia (Tauscher, 1806) , Euproctis chrysorrhoea , Calliteara pudibunda (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Lepidoptera : Lymantridae). Parasitoid of Euproctis chrysorrhoea ( Lepidoptera : Lymantriidae ) ( Nikdel et al. 2004). In Iran, it was reared from the 3 rd larval instar of Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) ( Lepidoptera : Arctiidae ) ( Nurieva 2002).