Chelonus (Chelonus) scabrator (FABRICIUS 1793)

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Chelonus (Chelonus) scabrator (FABRICIUS 1793)

Ichneumon scabrator FABRICIUS 1793 - Ent. Syst. II: 174.

Sigalphus scabrator LATREILLE 1809 - Gen. Crust. U. Insect., 13.

Sigalphus scaber NEES VON ESENBECK 1813 - Mag. Ges. Naturf. Fr. Berlin VII: 272.

Chelonus scabrator TRENTEPOHL 1825 - Revis. Crit. Gen. Ichneum.

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Guilan ( GHAHARI et al. 2009d), Iran (no locality cited) ( SHENEFELT 1973).

D i s t r i b u t i o n o u t s i d e I r a n: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Czech

Republic, Finland, France, England, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Mongolia, Poland, Russia, Siberia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia ( SHENEFELT 1973), Turkey (AYDO DU & BEYARSLAN 2002, 2007, 2011; BEYARSLAN et al. 2002b, 2006; LOZAN 2005).

H o s t r e c o r d: Four species including, Oligia strigilis (L.) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), Loxostega sticticalis L. ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ), Cydia fractifasciana, and Rhopobota stagnana ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ) were reported as the hosts of C. scabrator ( SHENEFELT 1973; AYDO DU & BEYARSLAN 2007). Also, AYDO DU & BEYARSLAN (2011) recorded five lepidopteran species belonging to four families including, Noctuidae , Pyralidae , Pyraustidae and Tortricidae as the hosts of C. scabrator (FABRICIUS) .