Microctonus falciger Ruthe, 1856

Material examined. Northern Khorasan province, Shirvan, 37°32′N 57°54′E, 1♂, August 2013. New record for Iran.

Distribution outside Iran. Palaearctic species (Haeselbarth 1998, 1999), Central Asia, Western Europe (Tobias 1986). Austria, Belarus, Belgium, former Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Sitzerland, Ukraine, UK, Uzbekistan (Yu et al. 2012), Hungary (Papp 2006, 2008; Yu et al. 2012), Kazakhstan, Russia (Tobias 1986; Yu et al. 2012), Turkey (Yilmaz et al. 2012; Koldaş et al. 2013; Yu et al. 2012).

Host records. Chrysolina banksi (Fabricius), Timarcha anglica ?, T. coriaria ?, T. normanna Reiche, T. normandiana Bechyne, T. tenebricosa Fabricius ( Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Orchesia micans (Panzer) ( Coleoptera: Melandryidae) (Yu et al. 2012). Tobias (1986) reported Orchesia micans (Panzer) ( Coleoptera: Melandryidae) as well as many Timarcha spp. ( Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) as hosts of P. falciger .