Aphidius matricariae Haliday, 1834

Figs 12, 91, 194, 290, 392, 485, 528

Material examined

SAUDI ARABIA • 1 ♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Nov. 2012; on Chrysanthemum sp . • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Apr. 2013; on Dodonaea viscosa • 1 ♀, 3 ♂♂; Abha; May 2013; on Dodonaea viscosa • 2 ♀♀; Abha; 28 Nov. 2012; Agricultural field; on Lablab purpureus • 7 ♀♀, 1 ♂ Abha; Nov. 2012; on Lablab purpureus • 1 ♀, 6 ♂♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Nov. 2012; on Lactuca virosa • 28 ♀♀, 23 ♂♂; Abha-Mazra; May 2013; Aphis punicae Passerini on Punica granatum • 3 ♂♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Nov. 2012; on Setaria glauca • 1 ♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Dec. 2012; on Solanum nigrum • 4 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Apr. 2013; on Solanum nigrum • 1 ♂; Abha-Mahala College campus; Nov. 2012; on Sonchus oleraceus; Z. Ahmed leg. (DPPZ) .

Host records

Acyrthosiphon gossypii Mordvilko (?) (Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Amegosiphon platicaudum (Narzikulov) (Nazari et al. 2012); Aphis affinis Del Guercio (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976; Aslan et al. 2004; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2012b; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis aurantii Boyer de Fonscolombe (Hussein & Kawar 1984; Tremblay et al. 1985; Ben Halima et al. 1994; Uysal et al. 2004; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011); Aphis craccivora Koch (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Abdel-Samad & Ahmed 2009; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Aphis crepidis (Börner) (Starý et al. 2000); Aphis dlabolai Holman (Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis euphorbiae Kaltenbach (Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis fabae Scopoli (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013; Ayadi et al. 2017); Aphis gossypii Glover (Starý 1979; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Ben Halima et al. 1994; Starý et al. 2000; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Ahmad & Bakr 2013; Barahoei et al. 2013; Satar et al. 2014; Ayadi et al. 2017); Aphis hederae Kaltenbach (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis illinoisensis Shimer (Barjadze et al. 2010; Havelka et al. 2011); Aphis intybi Koch (Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Aphis nasturtii Kaltenbach (Starý 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b – as Aphis zizyphi Theobald; Nazari et al. 2012); Aphis nerii Boyer de Fonscolombe (Abou- Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Ben Halima et al. 1994; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis parietariae Theobald (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976); Aphis plantaginis Goeze (Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis pomi De Geer (Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Rakhshani 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis punicae Passerini (Laamari et al. 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis solanella Theobald (Barahoei et al. 2013); Aphis spiraecola Patch (Laamari et al. 2012; Rakhshani 2012); Aphis umbrella (Börner) (Schlinger & Mackauer 1963; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Nazari et al. 2012); Aulacorthum solani (Kaltenbach) (Hussein & Kawar 1984); Brachycaudus amygdalinus (Schouteden) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani 2012); Brachycaudus cardui (L.) (Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Rakhshani 2012); Brachycaudus divaricatae Shaposhnikov (Jafari et al. 2011; Jafari & Modarres Awal 2012); Brachycaudus helichrysi (Kaltenbach) (Starý 1976; Erkin 1983; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Mokhtari et al. 2000; Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a, 2012b; Talebi et al. 2009; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Rakhshani 2012; Jafari et al. 2011; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Jafari & Modarres Awal 2012; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Satar et al. 2014; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Brachycaudus persicae (Passerini) (Rakhshani 2012); Brachycaudus tragopogonis (Kaltenbach) (Aslan et al. 2004; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009); Brevicoryne brassicae (L.) (?) (Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Capitophorus elaeagni (Del Guercio) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Capitophorus inulae (Passerini) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov) (González et al. 1992; Zareh et al. 1995; Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012, 2016); Dysaphis crataegi (Kaltenbach) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Dysaphis devecta (Walker) (Starý et al. 2000; Aslan & Karaca 2005); Dysaphis foeniculus (Theobald) (Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Dysaphis lappae (Koch) (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Dysaphis plantaginea (Passerini) (Radjabi 1989; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b – as Myzus mali Ferrari; Starý et al. 2000; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Aslan & Karaca 2005; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Rakhshani 2012); Dysaphis pyri (Boyer de Fonscolombe) (Erkin 1983; Radjabi 1989; Starý et al. 2000; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Laamari et al. 2012); Eucarazzia elegans (Ferrari) (Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Barahoei et al. 2013); Hyalopterus amygdali (Blanchard) (?) (Jafari et al. 2011; Jafari & Modarres Awal 2012; Nazari et al. 2012); Hyalopterus pruni (Geoffroy) (?) (Erkin 1983; Mokhtari et al. 2000; Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Hyperomyzus lactucae (L.) (?) (Laamari et al. 2011; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) (Mossadegh et al. 2011); Lipaphis lepidii (Nevsky) (Starý 1979; Starý et al. 2000; Mossadegh et al. 2011); Lipaphis pseudobrassicae (Davis) (Barahoei et al. 2013; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) (Yoldaş et al. 1990; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Uysal et al. 2004); Macrosiphum rosae (L.) (Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Laamari et al. 2011); Metopolophium dirhodum (Walker) (Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a, 2008b; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Myzus ascalonicus Doncaster (Barahoei et al. 2013); Myzus beybienkoi (Narzykulov) (Starý et al. 2000); Myzus cerasi (Fabricius) (Erkin 1983; Mokhtari et al. 2000; Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Rakhshani 2012); Myzus certus (Walker) (Barahoei et al. 2013); Myzus ornatus Laing (Starý et al. 2000); Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Schlinger & Mackauer 1963; Rosen 1967, 1969; Avidov & Kotter 1966; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976, 1979; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Erkin 1983; Tremblay et al. 1985; Karaat & Goven 1986; Radjabi 1989; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Ben Halima et al. 1994; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Starý et al. 2000; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Jafari et al. 2011; Jafari & Modarres Awal 2012; Barahoei et al. 2012, 2013; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani 2012; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013; Chaouche & Laamari 2015; Ayadi et al. 2017); Nasonovia ribisnigri (Mosley) (?) (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Ovatus insitus (Walker) (Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Rakhshani 2012); Phorodon humuli (Schrank) (Schlinger & Mackauer 1963; Starý et al. 2000); Rhopalomyzus sp. (Starý 1979); Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) (Ibrahim 1990 a, 1990b; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ibrahim & Afifi 1991; El-Heneidy 1994; Starý et al. 2000; El-Heneidy & Abdel-Samad 2001; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Barahoei et al. 2012, 2013; Nazari et al. 2012; Chaouche & Laamari 2015; Ayadi et al. 2017); Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (L.) (Mokhtari et al. 2000; Starý et al. 2000); Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Hussein & Kawar 1984; Tremblay et al. 1985; Ibrahim 1990b; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; El-Heneidy 1994, Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Starý et al. 2000; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; Rakhshani et al. 2008a, 2008b; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013; Chaouche & Laamari 2015; Gadallah et al. 2017); Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; El-Heneidy 1994; Starý et al. 2000; El-Heneidy & Abdel-Samad 2001; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; Rakhshani et al. 2008a, 2008b; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013); Schizaphis rosazevedoi Ilharco (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Sitobion avenae (Fabricius) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; El-Heneidy 1994; Starý et al. 2000; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003; Slman 2006; Rakhshani et al. 2008a, 2008b; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Mossadegh et al. 2011; Barahoei et al. 2013; Gadallah et al. 2017); Sitobion fragariae (Walker) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Barahoei et al. 2013); Uroleucon compositae (Theobald) (?) (Laamari et al. 2011); Uroleucon sonchi (L.) (?) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Wahlgreniella nervata (Gillette) (Barahoei et al. 2013) .

Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa

Algeria (Starý 1976; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Egypt (Ibrahim 1990 a, 1990b; El-Heneidy 1994; El-Heneidy & Abdel-Samad 2001; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Abdel-Samad & Ahmed 2009; El-Ghiet et al. 2014; Gadallah et al. 2017); Iran (Starý 1979; Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2008a, 2008b; Rakhshani et al. 2012b; Nazari et al. 2012; Rakhshani 2012; Barahoei et al. 2012, 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Iraq (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976); Israel (Schlinger & Mackauer 1963; Rosen 1967, 1969; Avidov & Kotter 1966; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Lebanon (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Hussein & Kawar 1984; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Saudi Arabia (Ahmad & Bakr 2013); Tunisia (Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Ben Halima et al. 1994; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Ayadi et al. 2017); Turkey (Starý 1976; Uysal et al. 2004; Eastern part – Karaat & Goven 1986; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Central part – Aslan et al. 2004; Satar et al. 2014; Western part – Erkin 1983; Aslan & Karaca 2005; Erdoğan et al. 2008; Barjadze et al. 2010; Havelka et al. 2011; Akar & Erdoğan 2017); UAE (Starý et al. 2013); Yemen (Starý et al. 2013).

General distribution

Cosmopolitan.