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Aphidius colemani Viereck 1912

  • 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 colemani Viereck, 1912

Figs 84, 187, 283, 385, 481, 521

Host records

Acyrthosiphon gossypii Mordvilko (?), Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (?) (Starý & Erdelen 1982); Aphis aurantii Boyer de Fonscolombe (Rosen 1967, 1969; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1976; Tremblay et al. 1985; Yumruktepe & Uygun 1994; Uysal et al. 2004; Yoldaş et al. 2011); Aphis chloris Koch (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis craccivora Koch (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Yoldaş et al. 2011; Ahmad & Bakr 2013; Satar et al. 2014); Aphis epilobiaria Theobald (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis fabae Scopoli (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Starý & Erdelen 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b – as Aphis citricola van der Goot; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis gossypii Glover (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Yoldaş et al. 2002, 2011; Uysal et al. 2004; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Irshaid & Hasan 2011; Laamari et al. 2012; Satar et al. 2014; Ayadi et al. 2017); Aphis hederae Kaltenbach, Aphis illinoisensis Shimer (El-Gantiry et al. 2012; Havelka et al. 2011); Aphis intybi Koch (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou- Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis nerii Boyer de Fonscolombe (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis nasturtii Kaltenbach (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b – as Aphis zizyphi Theobald); Aphis pomi De Geer (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Aphis punicae Passerini (Starý 1976; Al-Azawi 1970; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis solanella Theobald (Ayadi et al. 2017); Aphis umbrella (Börner) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis verbasci Schrank (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis sp. (Starý 1975, 1976); Brachycaudus amygdalinus (Schouteden) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Brachycaudus cardui (L.) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Brachycaudus helichrysi (Kaltenbach) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Starý & Erdelen 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Satar et al. 2014); Capitophorus elaeagni (Del Guercio) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov) (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Starý et al. 2013); Hayhurstia atriplicis (L.) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Hyadaphis foeniculi (Passerini) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Hyperomyzus lactucae (L.) (?) (Güz & Kilinçer 2005); Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Macrosiphum rosae (L.) (?) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Starý & Erdelen 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Güz & Kilinçer 2005; Yoldaş et al. 2011; Laamari et al. 2012; Ahmad & Bakr 2013; Satar et al. 2014; Hasan 2016); Ovatus mentharius (van der Goot) (Güz & Kilinçer 2005); Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Güz & Kilinçer 2005; Gadallah et al. 2017); Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (L.) (Starý 1976); Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abdel-Rahman et al. 2000; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; Gadallah et al. 2017); Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abdel-Rahman et al. 2000; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006); Schizaphis rosazevedoi Ilharco (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Sitobion avenae (Fabricius) (Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002; Sobhy et al. 2004; Gadallah et al. 2017); Sitobion fragariae (Walker) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b).

Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa

Algeria (Starý 1975, 1976; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Egypt (Starý 1976; Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Abdel-Rahman et al. 2000; El-Heneidy & Abdel-Samad 2001; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; El-Gantiry et al. 2012; El-Ghiet et al. 2014; Gadallah et al. 2017); Iraq (Al-Azawi 1970; Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976); Israel (Rosen 1967, 1969; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1970, 1975, 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Jordan (Irshaid & Hasan 2011; Hasan 2016); Lebanon (Starý 1976; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Libya (Havelka et al. 2011; Tomanović et al. 2014); Morocco (Starý & Sekkat 1987); Palestine (Samara & Qubbaj 2012); Saudi Arabia (Ahmad & Bakr 2013); Syria (Starý 1975, 1976); Tunisia (Starý 1976; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Ayadi et al. 2017); Turkey (Starý 1976; Uysal et al. 2004; Eastern part – Tozlu et al. 2002; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Central part – Yumruktepe & Uygun 1994; Güz & Kilinçer 2005; Satar et al. 2014; Western part – Yoldaş et al. 2002, 2011; Erdoğan et al. 2008; Akar & Erdoğan 2017); UAE (Starý et al. 2013); Yemen (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Starý et al. 2013).

General distribution

Cosmopolitan.

Remarks

All evidence from Iran (Starý 1979, Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2008a), refer to Aphidius platensis (Tomanović et al. 2014). Identification-revision of this species group is recommended. Description and illustration of Aphidius colemani in Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b, clearly represent the diagnostic characters of Aphidius platensis.

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 8-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562

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