Platygaster nisus Walker, 1836

Material examined

IRAN – East Azarbaijan Province • 2 ♀♀; Khosroshah; 37°58′ N, 46°02′ E; 1357 m a.s.l; Jul. 2008; H. Lotfalizadeh leg.; Malaise trap; HMIM • 1 ♂; Marand-Yam; 38°48′ N, 45°77′ E; 1334 m a.s.l.; Jul. 2007; H. Lotfalizadeh leg.; Malaise trap; HMIM • 1 ♀; Marand; 38°25′ N, 45°46′ E; 1023 m a.s.l.; Aug. 2007; H. Lotfalizadeh leg.; Malaise trap; HMIM .

Distribution

Common, distributed from Europe to the Korean Peninsula (Buhl & Choi 2006; Buhl & Jałoszyński 2016b); Canary Islands and Madeira (Buhl & Koponen 2003b); Poland (Buhl & Jałoszyński 2016a); Germany (Buhl et al. 2016); Iran (new record).

Host

Parasitoid of Sitodiplosis mosellana (Géhin, 1857) ( Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) (Chavalle et al. 2018).