Cotesia risilis (Nixon, 1974)

Distribution in Iran. Ilam (Ghahari et al. 2011d), West Azarbaijan (Ghahari and Fischer 2011a; Samin 2015). Distribution outside Iran. former Czechoslavia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mongolia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, UK, former Yugoslavia (Yu et al. 2012).

Host records. Solitary parasitoid of the larva of Gonepteryx rhamni (Nixon 1974; Yu et al. 2012), Gelis areator, Gonepteryx cleoplatra (Yu et al. 2012) .