Neochrysocharis formosus (Westwood)

Yefremova, Zoya A., 2015, An annotated checklist of the Eulophidae (excl. Tetrastichinae) (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of Israel, Zootaxa 3957 (1), pp. 1-36 : 22-23

101. Neochrysocharis formosus (Westwood)

Material examined. 1 ♀, Israel, Nahal Kziv, 28 km NE Haifa, 22.xvii.1972, reared from braconid cocoon (D. Gerling); 1 ♂, 8 km NE Ashdod, sweeping, 1.viii.1972 (D. Gerling); 5 ♀, Tel Aviv University, M.T., 1.x.2006 (W. Kuslitzky); 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Tel Aviv University, M.T., 15.iii.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 3 ♀, 1 ♂, Tel Aviv, M.T., 23.v.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 2 ♀, Tel Aviv, M.T., 1.v.2007 (W. Kuslitzky); 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., xi.2008 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 19.vi.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 9 ♀, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 1.ix.2008 (W. Kuslitzky); 2 ♀, 1 ♂, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 29.ii.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 22.iv.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 29.iv.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 3 ♀, Ma’agan Mikha’el, M.T., 26.ix.2009 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, Almagor, M.T., 18.x.2010 (W. Kuslitzky); 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Almagor, M.T., 2.xi.2010 (W.

Kuslitzky); 3 ♀, Almagor, M.T., 15.xi.2010 (W. Kuslitzky); 2 ♀, Almagor, M.T., 9.xi.2010 (W. Kuslitzky); 3 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., xi.2010 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 2 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., vii.2011 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, ‘Enot Zuqim, 17.iii.2011, sweeping (Z. Yefremova); 3 ♀, Botanical garden, Tel Aviv, M.T., viii.2011 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, Sede Boqer, M.T., 1.v.2012 (Z. Yefremova, V. Kravchenko); 1 ♀, Rehovot Maz Keret Batya, sweeping, 12.03.2013 (Z. Yefremova); 1 ♀, Holot’Agur, M.T., 1.iv.2013 (I. Revah); 2 ♀, Latrun, reared from Liriomyza cicerina on Trifolium repens 14-18.iii.2013 (Z. Yefremova); 1 ♂, Karmel, Daliyat al-Karmel, sweeping, 24.V.2014 (Z. Yefremova).

Hosts. Endoparasitoid of dipterous leaf-miners ( Diptera : Agromyzidae ) ( LaSalle & Parrella 1991; Askew et al. 2001; Rizzo & Massa 2002; Yefremova et al. 2007); new host-record Liriomyza cicerina and hyperparasitoid of Braconidae .

Distribution. Israel (Gumovsky 2003); cosmopolitan ( Noyes 2014).