Epuraea silacea (Herbst, 1783)

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Epuraea silacea (Herbst, 1783)

Epuarae deleta Sturm, 1844 ; Epuraea laricina Motschulsky, 1860 ; Epuraea fagi Brisout de Barneville, 1874.

Distribution within Iran. Mazandaran (Jelínek 1981 under E. deleta Sturm ; Audisio et al. 2000).

Distribution outside Iran. Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Great Britain, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldavia, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine.

Subfamily Carpophilinae Erichson, 1842

Genus Carpophilus Stephens, 1830

Carpophilus bipustulatus (Heer, 1841)

Distribution within Iran. Mazandaran (Sakenin et al. 2008a).

Distribution outside Iran. Afghanistan, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, the Netherlands, Turkey, Ukraine.

Carpophilus dimidiatus (Fabricius, 1792)

Carpophilus pusillus Stephens, 1830 ; Carpophilus auropilosus Wollaston, 1854 .

Distribution within Iran. Khuzestan (Azimi et al. 1993), generally distributed in Iran (Modarres Awal 1997). Distribution outside Iran. Arab Emirates, Azores, Canary Islands, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Syria, the Netherlands, Turkey. Cosmopolitan species.

Carpophilus fumatus Boheman, 1851

Carpophilus ochropterus Klug, 1862 .

Distribution within Iran. Mazandaran (Sakenin et al. 2011).

Distribution outside Iran. Azores, Iraq, Italy (Sicily), Morocco, Portugal, Turkey and Afrotropical region.

Carpophilus hemipterus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Silpha bimaculata Linnaeus, 1767 ; Nitidula flexuosa Herbst, 1790 ; Nitidula quadriguttata Thunberg, 1794 ; Nitidula quadrata Fabricius, 1798 ; Nitidula cadaverina Fabricius, 1801 ; Stenus ficus Fabricius, 1801 ; Cateretes dimidiatus Heer, 1841 ; Cateretes pictus Heer, 1841 ; Carpophilus brevipennis Germain, 1856 ; Carpophilus atterimus MacLeay, 1871 ; Carpophilus circumdatus Ragusa, 1892 .

Distribution within Iran. Golestan (Khormali et al. 2002), generally distributed in Iran (Modarres Awal 1997). Distribution outside Iran. Cosmopolitan.

Comments. Zeteticontus abilis (Silvestri 1915) ( Hymenoptera : Encyrtidae ) was collected from Savadkooh (Mazandaran province) as the parasitoid of C. hemipterus .