Opius (Apodesmia) aethiops Haliday, 1837

Gadallah, Neveen S., Ghahari, Hassan, Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier & Fischer, Maximilian, 2016, Updated checklist of Iranian Opiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Zootaxa 4066 (1), pp. 1-40 : 8-9

Opius (Apodesmia) aethiops Haliday, 1837

Distribution in Iran. Ardabil (Rastegar et al. 2012), Guilan ( Ghahari et al. 2012b).

Distribution outside Iran. Austria ( Fischer 1980; Yu et al. 2012), Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Spain, Slovakia, Sweden, Uzbekistan ( Yu et al. 2012), Czech Republic (Lozan et al. 2010 as Phaedrotoma aethiops ; Yu et al. 2012), Finland ( Fischer 1984 as Opius aethiops ; Fischer and Koponen 2000, 2009; Yu et al. 2012), Germany ( Belokobylskij et al. 2003; Yu et al. 2012), Hungary (Papp 2006 as Apodesmia aethiops ; Yu et al. 2012), Israel ( Fischer 1997 as Apodesmia aethiops ; Papp 2011-2012 as Apodesmia aethiops ; Yu et al. 2012), Italy ( Fischer 1984 as Opius aethiops ; Yu et al. 2012), Serbia ( Žikić et al. 2013b as Phaedrotoma aethiops ), Turkey (Fischer and Beyarslan 2012; Beyarslan and Fischer 2011, 2013; Yu et al. 2012), UK ( Marshall 1899; Broad et al. 2012 as Phaedrotoma aethiops ; Yu et al. 2012).

Host records. Pediaspis aceris (Gmelin, 1790) ( Hymenoptera : Cynipidae ) ( Yu et al. 2012), Cerodontha denticornis (Panzer, 1806) , Chromatomyia milii (Kaltenbach, 1864) ( Diptera : Agromyzidae ) ( Yu et al. 2012; Žikić et al. 2013b).