Pediobius metallicus (Nees)

Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, Zootaxa 3957 (1), pp. 1-36 : 25

115. Pediobius metallicus (Nees)

Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Meron Field School, M.T., 6.iv.2007 (T. Levanony); 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Tel Aviv University, M.T., 19.vii.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 2 ♂, Herzliyya, 17.i.2009. sweeping (Freidberg); 2 ♂, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., 24.ix-1.xi.2010 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♂, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., i.2011 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., 30.i.2011 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., 30.viii.2011 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♂, Hammat Gader, 13.iii.2013, sweeping (D. Furth); 1 ♂, Hosha’ya, ex. Ph. quercifoliella on Quercus ithaburensis , 17.iii.2013 (W. Kuslitzkiy).

Hosts. Endoparasitoid of Agromyzidae (Diptera) ( Hansson1987; LaSalle & Parrella 1991; Rizzo & Massa 2002), Elachistidae , Gracillariidae , Nepticulidae , Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) ( Bouček & Askew 1968); new hostrecord Ph. quercifoliella on Quercus ithaburensis .

Distribution. Israel *; Palearctic, Indo-Malayan and Nearctic ecorealms ( Bouček & Askew 1968; Kalina 1989; LaSalle & Parrella 1991; Yefremova et al. 2010).