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Aphidius avenae 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 avenae Haliday, 1834

Figs 81, 184, 280, 382, 478, 518

Material examined

SAUDI ARABIA • 1♀; Abha; May 2013; on Jacaranda mimosifolia • 1♀ 1♂; Abha; May 2013; Myzus persicae (Sulzer) on Lectuca virosa • 1♀ 1♂; Abha; Jun. 2012; Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) on Trifolium alexandrinum; Z. Ahmad, leg. (DPPZ).

Host records

Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (Tremblay et al. 1985; Laamari et al. 2011); Aphis sp. (Uysal et al. 2004); Hyperomyzus lactucae (L.) (Laamari et al. 2011); Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Uysal et al. 2004); Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) (Taheri & Rakhshani 2013).

Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa

Algeria (Laamari et al. 2011); Iran (Taheri & Rakhshani 2013); Lebanon (Tremblay et al. 1985); Morocco (Bleton & Fieuzet 1939); Turkey (Central part – Erdoğan et al. 2008; Western part – Uysal et al. 2004; Erdoğan et al. 2008; Akar & Erdoğan 2017 – as Aphidius picipes (Nees 1811)); Saudi Arabia (new record).

General distribution

Holarctic, Oriental.

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 page 7, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562

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References

  • Tremblay E., Kawar N. & Barbagallo S. 1985. Aphids (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) and aphidiines (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of Lebanon. Bollettino del Laboratorio di entomologia Agraria Filippo Silvestri Portici 42: 19 - 32.
  • Laamari M., Tahar C. S., Benferhat S., Abbes S. B., Merouani H., Ghodbane S., Khenissa N. & Stary P. 2011. Interactions tritrophiques: plante-puceron-hymenoptere parasitoide observees en milieux naturels et cultives de l'Est Algerien. Entomologie Faunistique 63 (3): 115 - 120.
  • Uysal M., Stary P., Sahbaz A. & Ozsemerci F. 2004. A review of aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) of Turkey. Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control 12 (2): 355 - 370.
  • Taheri S. & Rakhshani E. 2013. Identification of aphid parasitoids (Hym.: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) and determination of their host relationships in Southern Zagros. Journal of Plant Protection (Ferdowsi University Iran) 27 (1): 85 - 95. [In Persian.]
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