Pediobius cassidae Erdos, 1958

Kosheleva, O. V., 2023, Eulophid wasps of the subfamily Entedoninae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from the Khingan Reserve, Amur Province, Russia, Far Eastern Entomologist 479, pp. 13-24 : 18-19

Pediobius cassidae Erdos, 1958

MATERIAL EXAMINED. Russia: Amur Province, KhR, 3 km E Uril, r. Tarmanchukan , hill, 3–4.VIII.2022, 5 ♀ (VCh, OK) ; 7 km SE Uril, riv. Dyrovatka , forest, 6–7.VIII.2022, 2♀ ;

same location, but Calamagrostis swamp, 1♀; 24 km W Arkhara, сordon Kleshinskoe ozero, 9, 12–13.VIII.2022, 8♀ (VCh, OK); same location, but сordon Juzhnyi, oakery, 13.VIII. 2022, 1 ♀; Arkhara 15.VIII.2022, 2♀ (OK).

DISTRIBUTION. Russia: Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Rostov Provinces, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, Tomsk, Amur Province, Primorskiy Territory. Europe, Turkey, Yemen, Israel, Iran .

HOSTS. Primary parasitoid of coleopterans from the family Chrysomelidae and various lepidopterans; secondary parasitoid of hymenopterans from the families Braconidae and Ichneumonidae .