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Aphidius ervi Haliday 1834

  • 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, I. R. Iran.
  • 2. Institute of Agricultural Research, University of Zabol, P. O. Box 98615 - 538, I. R. Iran.
  • 3. Research Center Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia. & Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, P. O. Box 9004, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia. & Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, King Khalid University, Dhahran Al Janoub, Saudi Arabia.
  • 4. Institute of Entomology, Biology Center, Laboratory of Aphidology, AVCR, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
  • 5. Department of Biodiversity, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Sciences, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, I. R. Iran.
  • 6. Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology and Entomology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, 75 Iera Odos str., 11855, Athens, Attica, Greece.
  • 7. Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Studensky trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia.

Description

Aphidius ervi Haliday, 1834

Figs 10, 87, 190, 286, 388, 483, 524

Host records

Acyrthosiphon gossypii Mordvilko (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013); Acyrthosiphon ilka Mordvilko (as Acyrthosiphon bidentis Eastop – Starý 1976); Acyrthosiphon kondoi Shinji (González et al. 1978; Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2006a, 2008a, 2008b; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013); Acyrthosiphon lactucae (Passerini) (Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Uysal et al. 2004); Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Bodenheimer & Swirski 1957; Eady 1969; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1976; Starý & González 1978; González et al. 1978; Monajemi & Esmaili 1981; Tremblay et al. 1985; Talebi et al. 2009; Nazari et al. 2012; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013; Barahoei et al. 2013; Düzgüneş et al. 1982; Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Rasulian 989; Starý & Sekkat 1987; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Starý et al. 2000; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2006a, 2008a, 2008b; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Rakhshani et al. 2012b; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Aphis craccivora Koch (Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Laamari et al. 2011; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Aphis fabae Scopoli (Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Uysal et al. 2004; Laamari et al. 2011); Capitophorus elaeagni (Del Guercio); Dysaphis foeniculus (Theobald) (Ayadi et al. 2017); Dysaphis spp., Hyperomyzus lactucae (L.) (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Lipaphis pseudobrassicae (Davis) (Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) (Starý 1976; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Metopolophium dirhodum (Walker) (Starý & Sekkat 1987; Elmali & Toros 1994; Gülçlü & Özbek 2002; Uysal et al. 2004); Microlophium carnosum (Buckton) (Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Talebi et al. 2009); Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Starý 1976; Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Starý & Sekkat 1987; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Laamari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Laamari et al. 2011; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013; Gadallah et al. 2017); Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) (Starý & Sekkat 1987); Sitobion avenae (Fabricius) (Elmali & Toros 1994; Darvish-Mojeni & Bayat-Asadi 1995; Uysal et al. 2004; Rakhshani et al. 2008a; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Ayadi et al. 2017; Gadallah et al. 2017); Sitobion fragariae (Walker) (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Uroleucon aeneum (Hille Ris Lambers) (?); Uroleucon sonchi (L.) (?) (Laamari et al. 2011); Wahlgreniella nervata (Gillette) (Barahoei et al. 2013).

Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa

Algeria (Starý 1976; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012; Chaouche & Laamari 2015); Egypt (Gadallah et al. 2017); Iran (Starý 1979; Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2006a, 2008a, 2008b, 2012b; Nazari et al. 2012; Barahoei et al. 2013; Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Iraq (Al-Azawi 1970; Starý 1976); Israel (Bodenheimer & Swirski 1957; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Lebanon (Mackauer & Starý 1967; Starý 1976; Marsh 1977; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Morocco (Mimeur 1934; Eady 1969; Starý 1976; Starý & Sekkat 1987; González et al. 1978); Palestine (Samara & Qubbaj 2012); Tunisia (Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 1993; Ayadi et al. 2017); Turkey (Eastern part – Elmali & Toros 1994; Gülçlü & Özbek 2002; Central part – Zeren & Düzgüneş 1983; Uysal et al. 2004; Erdoğan et al. 2008; Western part – Akar & Erdoğan 2017); UAE (Starý et al. 2013); Yemen (Starý et al. 2013).

General distribution

Cosmopolitan.

Notes

Published as part of Rakhshani, Ehsan, Barahoei, Hossein, Ahmad, Zubair, Starý, Petr, Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa, Mehrparvar, Mohsen, Kavallieratos, Nickolas G., Čkrkić, Jelisaveta & Tomanović, Željko, 2019, Review of Aphidiinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of the Middle East and North Africa: key to species and host associations, pp. 1-132 in European Journal of Taxonomy 552 on pages 10-11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562

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