Microctonus melanopus Ruthe, 1856

Distribution in Iran. Sistan & Baluchestan (Sedighi and Madjdzadeh 2015).

Distribution outside Iran. A Palaearctic and fairly frequent species (Belokobylskij 2000). Canada (Fox et al. 2004; Yu et al. 2012 as Perilitus melanopus; Sharanowski et al. 2014), Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Western Europe (Tobias 1986 as Meteorus melanopus), Hungary (Papp 2006; Yu et al. 2012 as Perilitus melanopus), Macedonia (Papp 2010; Yu et al. 2012 as Perilitus melanopus), Mongolia (Papp 2005 as Perilitus aethiopoides; Papp 2009b; Yu et al. 2012 as Perilitus melanopus), Turkey (Güçlü and Özbek 2011).

Host records. In Turkey, it is reported from Ceuthorrhynchus quadridens Everts, C. assimilis Paykull, C. pleurostigma Everts, C. ruebsaameni H. Kolbe ( Coleoptera: Cuirculionidae) (Güçlü and Özbek 2011), Hypera meles (Fabricius), Ceutorrhynchus spp. ( Coleoptera; Curculionidae) (Tobias 1986).