Peristenus pallipes (Curtis, 1833)

Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 149-156 : 151

Peristenus pallipes (Curtis, 1833)

Material examined: Province of Golestan: Gorgan , 36°50′N 54°30′E, 110 m, (2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀), July 2011 .

Distribution outside Iran: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA ( Yu et al. 2012).

Host records: A large number of hosts were reported: Adelphocoris lineolatus Goeze, 1778 ( Yu et al. 2012), A. rapidus (Say, 1832) , Capsus ater (Linnaeus, 1758) , Closterotomus norvegicus (Gmelin, 1790) , Labops hirtus Knight, 1922 , Leptoptema dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Lygus spp. , Notostira erratica (Linnaeus, 1758) , Plagiognathus medicagus Arrand, 1958 , Trigonotylus coelestialium (Kirkaldy, 1902) ( Hemiptera : Miridae ). Others belonging to the order Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae) : Timarcha tenebricosa (Fabricius, 1775) ( Yu et al. 2012) . It was also reported as a parasitoid of Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818) ( Hemiptera : Miridae ) ( Bilewicz-Pawinska, 1977, 1982). In Canada, this species was reported as parasitoid of a number of plant bugs ( Hemiptera : Miridae ): Adelphocoris lineolatus Goeze, 1778 , A. rapidus (Say, 1832) , Leptopterna dolobrata (Linnaeus, 1758) , Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818) , Capsus ater Linnaeus, 1758 ( Loan 1980).