Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ghazichak), 36°45.87'N, 50°20'E, 1787 m, 27.IX.2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish; 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Tanghevaz, 36°21.92'N, 52°6.17'E, 702 m, 18.VII.2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi.
Distribution. Nearctic - Canada and USA.; Neotropical - Middle America (Mexico); Oriental - China (East), India (Northwest); Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Central Asia, Middle East (Israel), Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia and China (O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (Samet et al., 1977).
Host range. Lepidoptera - Arctiidae: Phragmatobia fuliginosa (Linnaeus, 1758) and many genera and species of Noctuidae (see Tschorsnig, 2017:241–242).