Authors
1 Tarbiat Modares University
2 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University
Abstract
Parasitoid wasps of Yponomeuta malinellus Zeller(Lep.: Yponomeutidae) were studied in Karadj (Tehran province) in 2003. The populations of larvae and pupae of Y. malinellus were collected from Arangeh (25 Jun. 2004), Baraghan and Aghasht (18 Jun. 2004) areas. The samples were held in cages under laboratory conditions. Several species of parasitic wasps were emerged from the cocoons of the hosts. Two species of Ichneumonid wasp were identified as:
Campoplex tumidulus (Gravenhorst, 1829) (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae)
Itoplectis tunetana (Schmiedeknecht, 1914) (Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae)
Both species were identified by Dr. Klaus Horstman from University of Wüerzburg, Germany. According to the literatures both species are new records from Iran. There are also several other ichneumonid species that parasitize the Y. malinellus in above-mentioned areas.
C. tumidulus has been reported as parasitoid of Zeiraphera rufimitrana
(Herrich-Schäffer) (Lep.: Tortricidae) in Romania and Phthorimea operculella (Zeller)
(Lep.: Gelechiidae) in Japan.
I. tunetana has been reported as parasitoid of Y. malinellus in Turkey as well as
Plutella xylostella (Linnaeus) (Lep.: Pyralidae) in Russia and Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lep.: Noctuidae) in Azarbaijan.
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