Aleiodes alternator (Nees, 1834)

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Farahani et al. 2015).

General distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental: Belgium, China, France, Germany, Latvia, Romania, Spain (Yu et al. 2012), Finland (Shenefelt 1975 as A. geniculator var. alternator Nees), England, Scotland, Wales (Broad et al. 2016), Ireland (Yu et al. 2012; Broad et al. 2016).

Hosts. Aleiodes alternator appears to be restricted to Erabidae and Lasiocampidae (Quicke 2014) . Lepidoptera—Erebidae: Spiris striata (Linnaeus, 1758); Cymbalophora pudica (Esper, 1784) (Falcó et al. 1997; Yu et al. 2012); Lymantriidae: Leucoma salicis (Linnaeus, 1758), Orgyia antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758) (Yu et al. 2012) . Notuidae: Noctua fimbriata Schreber, 1759 (Yu et al. 2012) . Nymphalidae: Hipparchia alcyone Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775; Hipparchia semele (Linnaeus, 1758) (Falcó et al. 1997; Yu et al. 2012).