Meteorus pendulus (Müller, 1776)

Ghahari, Hassan, 2015, A faunistic study on the subfamily Euphorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea, Braconidae) from Iran., Arquivos Entomolóxicos 14, pp. 149-156 : 152

Meteorus pendulus (Müller, 1776)

Material examined: Province of Golestan: GonbAd , 37°30′N 55°00′E, 4 m, (1 ♀), September 2013 .

Distribution outside Iran: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan ( Yu et al. 2012).

Host records: It is a solitary endoparasitoid on lepidopteran families (including Geometridae , Lasiocampidae , Lycaenidae , Lymantridae, Noctuidae , and Tortricidae ) and emerges from the larval stage ( Yu et al. 2012). Some specimens were collected from Ourmieh (province of West Azarbaijan) as the solitary endoparasitoid of Spodoptera exigua (Hübner, 1808) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) ( Farahani & Talebi 2012). It was reared from Plusia sp. ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) in Israel ( Papp 2011 -2012). It was also reared from Orthosia stabilis (Denis & Schiffermüller 1775) , Noctua triangulum Linnaeus, 1758 ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), Ocneria dispar Linnaeus, 1758 ( Lepidoptera : Lymantriidae ) ( Marshall 1885). In Norway it was reared from larva/pupa of Eupsilia transversa (Hufnagel, 1766) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) on Malus domestica Borkh., 1803 ( Stigenberg & Hansen 2013). The main hosts of the overwintering generation, such as Mythimna Ochsenheimer, 1816 , Noctua Linnaeus, 1758 and Xestia Hübner, 1818 species (Stigenberg & Shaw 2013). It was also reared from? Apamea unaminis (Hübner, 1813) , Agrochola lota (Clerck, 1759) , Brachylomia viminalis (Fabricius, 1776) , Ceramica pisi (Linnaeus, 1758) , Cerapteryx graminis (Linnaeus, 1758) , Conistra vaccinii (Linnaeus, 1761) , Cosmia trapezina (Linnaeus, 1758) , Dryobotodes eremita (Fabricius, 1775) , Eremobia ochroleuca (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , Euplexia lucipara (Linnaeus, 1758) , Eupsilia transversa (Hufnagel, 1766) , Lacanobia oleracea (Linnaeus, 1758) , Mythimna ferrago (Fabricius, 1787) , M. impura (Hübner, 1808) , Noctua orbona (Hufnagel, 1766) , N. fimbriata (Schreber, 1759) , Orthosia gracilis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , Phlogophora meticulosa (Linnaeus, 1758) , Thalpophila matura (Hufnagel, 1766) , Xestia xanthographa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) (Stigenberg & Shaw 2013).