Catalogue of the Iranian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Author
Gadallah, Neveen S.
Author
Ghahari, Hassan
Author
Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier
text
Zootaxa
2015
4043
1
1
69
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4043.1.1
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Microplitis rufiventris
Kokujev, 1914
Distribution in
Iran
.
Alborz, Tehran (
Farahani
et al.
2014
).
Distribution outside
Iran
.
Afghanistan
,
China
,
Cyprus
,
Egypt
,
Israel
,
Jordan
,
Romania
,
Turkey
,
Turkmenistan
,
Uzbekistan
(
Yu
et al.
2012
).
Host records.
This species is considered as a solitary endoparasitoid of the American bollworm
Helicoverpa armigera
, cotton leafworm
Spodoptera littoralis
and the lesser cotton worm
Spodoptera exigua
(
Hegazi and Führer 1985
;
Yu
et al.
2012
).
Yu
et al.
(2012)
reported this species from
Chelonis inanitus
,
Pteromalus semotus
,
Spodoptera cilium
, and
S. frugiperda
.