Aleiodes compressor (Herrich-Schäffer, 1838)

Distribution in Iran. Ilam (Ghahari et al. 2011c as Petalodes compressor (Herrich-Schäffer 1838)) .

General distribution. Palaearctic. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, fomer Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lithuania, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012 as Petalodes compressor), England, Scotland, Wales (Broad et al. 2016), Serbia (Žikić et al. 2013), Switzerland (Yu et al. 2012 as P. compressor (Herrisch-Schäffer); van Achterberg 2014), Siberia (Tobias 1986 as P. unicolor Wesmael) , USA (Shenefelt 1975 as P. unicolor Wesmael).

Hosts. Lepidoptera — Erebidae: Leucoma salicis (Linnaeus, 1758) . Geometridae: Apocheima hispidaria (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775); Hydriomena furcata (Thunberg, 1784); Limacodidae: Apoda limacodes (Hufnagel, 1766); Tortrix testudinana Hübner, 1803; Nolidae: Nycteola sp.; N. asiatica (Krulikovsky, 1904) on Populus tremula; N. revayana (Scopoli, 1772) . Notodontidae: Clostera sp.; Clostera anachoreta (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775); C. pigra (Hufnagel, 1766) . Tortricidae: Acleris hastiana (Linnaeus 1758); A. rosana (Linnaeus, 1758); Gypsonoma minutana (Hübner, 1799) on Populus tremula (Yu et al. 2012) .

Comments: Petalodes compressor (Herrich-Schäffer, 1838) is included in the genus Aleiodes Wesmael, 1838; according to van Achterberg (1991, 2014) and Chen & He (1997). Both morphological analysis and DNA data (Fortier & Shaw 1999; Quicke et al. 2006 respectively) confirm that the genus Petalodes Wesmal is a synonym of the genus Aleiodes (van Achterberg 2014) .