Cotesia ruficrus Haliday 1834

Cotesia ruficrus (Haliday, 1834)

Distribution in Iran. Fars (Lashkari Bod et al. 2011), Mazandaran (Abbasipour and Taghavi 2002, 2004; Abbasipour et al. 2004), Sistan & Baluchestan (Khajeh et al. 2014), Iran (no locality cited) (Khanjani 2004).

Distribution outside Iran. Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, China, Cyprus, former Czechoslovakia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Libya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, USA, Uganda, Ukraine, UK, Vietnam, Yemen, former Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe (Yu et al. 2012), Réunion (Rousse & Gupta 2013).

Host records. Mythimna unipunctata (Abbasipour and Taghavi 2004; Abbasipour et al 2004; Khanjani 2004 as Pseudaletia unipunctata Haworth). It has been reported from Chromatomyia horticola on Matricaria sp., Liriomyza strigata on Cucumis sativus and from Liriomyza trifolii on Vicia faba (Çikim and Uygun 2003); from Mythimna spp., Naranga aenescens, Spodoptera mauritia, Helicoverpa armigera and Chrysodeixis eriosoma on maize and rice fields throughout Vietnam (Long and Belokobylskij 2003; Yu et al. 2012). In Europe, it has been reported from Leucania impura, L. pallens, Polia oleracea) (Fahringer 1936), and in Africa from Cirphis loreyi (Wilkinson 1928), Sesamia cretica (Gahan 1917); in India from Hypsipyla robusta and Condica capensis (Wilkinson 1928; Yu et al. 2012); in Ceylon from Spodoptera mauritia (Wilkinson 1928; Yu et al. 2012); in Japan and Formosa from Naranga aenescens (Viereck 1913; Yu et al. 2012) and in North China from Cirphis unipuncta (Watanabe 1937). In N.W. Europe it was reared from Acronicta rumisis, Coenophila subrosea (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). In other parts of the world from: Anomis flava (in Fiji), Leucania venalba (in Malaya), Agrotis ipsilon (in Egypt), Mythimna loreyi (in E. Africa), Helicoverpa armigera (in Australia), Spodoptera exigua (in India), Pelopidas mathias (in India and Malaya), Melanitis leda (in Hong Kong), Prospalta capensis (in India), Plusia sp. and Spodoptera littura (in Ceylon), Spodoptera sp. (in Malaya), S. mauritia (in Ceylon), Chrysodeixis argentifera (in Australia), Sesamia inferens (in India), Phthorimaea operculella (in Australia) (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012). In China, it has been reported as a larval parasitoid of Sesamia inferens (Zhang 1986; Yu et al. 2012); it has been also reported from Anomis flava (Woo and Hsiang 1939; Yu et al. 2012). Yu et al. (2012) reported also Aclastus etorofuensis, Agrapha agnata, A. segetum, Anticollix sparsata, Autographa gamma, A. nigrisigna, Bathythrix kuwanae, Catolaccus sp., Chilo auricilius, Ch. partellus, Ch. suppressalis, Ch. zacconius, Ch. chalcites, Cnaphalocrocis medinalis, Colias croceus, Cucullia chamomillae, Deudorix antalus, Diatora prodeniae, Diloba caeruleocephala, Dinoderus minutus, Epicallia villica, Glaucocharis reniella, Gonepteryx rhamni, Helicoverpa zea, Hyphantria cunea, Hyposidra aquilaria, Lacanobia oleracea, Leucoma salicis, Loxostege sticticalis, Lymantria obfuscata, Malacosoma neustria, Maliarpha separatella, Mamestra brassicae, Melitaea cinxia, Mesochorus anomalus, M. discitergus, Meteorus rubens, Mythimma impura, M. litoralis, M. pallens, M. separata, Naranga diffusa, Ochropleura praecox, Ocnogyna loewii, Orthosia gracilis, Ostrinia nubilalis, Parnara guttata, Pectinophora gossypiella, Pediobius afronigripes, P. foveolatus, Philolema syleptae, Pieris brassicae, P. rapae, Plutella xylostella, Procerata africana, Protarchanara brevilinea, Pseudaletia convecta, P. unipuncta, P. includens, Pteromalus crassinervis, Sesamia nonagrioides, Shargacucullia verbasci, Sparganothis pilleriana, Spilarctia obliqua, Spilosoma lubricipedum, Spodoptera exempta, S. frugiperda, S. littoralis, Stictopisthus chinensis, S. srinaraini, Syllepte retractalis, Trichomalopsis apanteloctena, T. oryzae, Trichoplusia ni, T. orichalcea.