Chelonus (Chelonus) carbonator MARSHALL 1885

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 : 1926

Chelonus (Chelonus) carbonator MARSHALL 1885

Chelonus carbonator MARSHALL 1885 - Trans. R. ent. Soc. London 1885: 123,,.

D i s t r i b u t i o n i n I r a n: Isfahan ( GHAHARI et al. 2011 c).

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, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Siberia, Spain, Switzerland, former Yugoslavia ( SHENEFELT 1973), China, France, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan ( YU et al. 2012), Greece ( PAPP 2007), Japan ( WATANABE 1937).

H o s t r e c o r d: BALLARD (1921) reported C. carbonator MARSHALL as a parasitoid of Spodoptera mauritia (BOISDUVAL) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) in India. It was also reported as a parasitoid of Spodoptera litura F. ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) (RAO & SATYANARAYANA 1984; YU et al. 2012). In Europe, it was reported as a parasitoid of the European corn borer, Pyrausta nubilalis ( THOMSON 1928) . Also, YU et al. (2012) reported Cydia janthiana (DUPONCHEL) ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ) as another host of this species.