Chelonus (Parachelonus) pellucens (NEES VON ESENBECK 1816)

N. S, Ghahari, H., W, Ascogaster, P, Chelonus & W, Phanerotoma, 2013, An annotated catalogue of the Iranian Cheloninae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 45 (2), pp. 1921-1943 : 1932-1933

Chelonus (Parachelonus) pellucens (NEES VON ESENBECK 1816)

Chelonus alboannulatus SZÉPLIGETI 1896 - Termesz. Fuz. 19: 271,,.

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Guilan (GHAHARI & FISCHER 2011b as C. varimaculatus TOBIAS ; SAKENIN et al. 2012 as C. varimaculatus ), West Azarbaijan (GHAHARI & FISCHER 2011a; GHAHARI et al. 2012b), Northern Iran (no locality cited) ( SAKENIN et al. 2011).

D i s t r i b u t i o n o u t s i d e I r a n: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, U.K., Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia ( YU et al. 2012).

H o s t r e c o r d s: YU et al. (2012) reported the following species of Sesiidae (Lepidoptera) as the hosts of C. pellucens : Bembecia hungarica (TOMOLA) , B.

ichneumoniformis (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER), B. scopigera (SCOPOLI) , Chamaesphecia euceraeformis (OCHSENHEIMER) and C. tenthrediniformis (DENIS & SCHIFFERMÜLLER) .