Cotesia vanessae (REINHARD, 1880)

Samin, N., Ghahari, H., N. S & Davidian, E., 2014, A study on the Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from West Azarbaijan province, Northwestern Iran, Linzer biologische Beiträge 46 (2), pp. 1447-1478 : 1463-1464

Cotesia vanessae (REINHARD, 1880)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: West Azarbaijan province: Salmas (1311 m), 2, October 2007. West Azarbaijan province: Piranshahr (1466 m), 2, July 2008.

D i s t r i b u t i o n o u t s i d e I r a n: Almost throughout the Palearctic region, European part of USSR ( TOBIAS 1995 as Apanteles vanessae ), Czech Republic ( LOZAN et al. 2010),

Hungary ( PAPP 2008), Austria, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Russia (PAPP 1988), Australia, China, North and West Africa (YU et al. 1988), Turkey (INANÇ & BEYARSLAN 2001; ÇETIN ERDOĞAN & BEYARSLAN 2005). According to YU et al. (2012): Afghanistan, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, China, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Morocco, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan.

H o s t r e c o r d s: Parasitoid of Vanessa atalanta LINNAEUS, Inachis io LINNAEUS, Cynthia cardui LINNAEUS ( Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae ), Spodoptera exigua HÜBNER , Mythimna littoralis CURTIS , Ochropleura praecox LINNAEUS, Dicestra trifolii HUFNAGEL , Apamea sordens HUFNAGEL, Autophaga gamma LINNAEUS , Syngrapha circumflexa LINNAEUS , Helicoverpa armigera HÜBNER , Mamestra brassicae LINNAEUS ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) ( TOBIAS 1995).