Pachyneuron aphidis (Bouché, 1834)

Rahmani, Zahra, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Lotfalizadeh, Hossein & Mokhtari, Azizollah, 2022, Annotated checklist of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) in the Middle East and North Africa, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 8 (2), pp. 265-377 : 325

Pachyneuron aphidis (Bouché, 1834)

Diplolepis aphidis Bouché, 1834:170 , ♀ ♂. – Germany.

Material examined. 7♀♀, Iran: North Khorasan province, Maneh and Semelghan, Qaleh- Khan (37°30′52″N, 56°46′29″E), Malaise trap, 19.07.2018 , 2♀♀, Z. Rahmani Leg.; Kermanshah province, Sonqur (34°46′30″N, 47°32′48″E), swept on Weed, 07.06.2013 , 2♀♀, Z. Sharifi Leg.; Isfahan province, Najafabad (32°37′59.13″N, 51°21′29.18″E), Malaise trap, 12.06.2014 , 3♀♀, E. Nader leg.

Distribution in the Middle East: Algeria ( Sadat et al., 2019; Ghelamallah et al., 2020), Egypt ( Kolaib, 1991; Gadallah et al., 2014), Iran ( Rakhshani et al., 2004; Lotfalizadeh & Gharali, 2008; Mitroiu et al., 2011; Hasani & Madjdzadeh, 2012; Moravvej et al., 2018; Rahmani et al., 2021; Shojaey et al., 2021; current study), Iraq ( OILB, 1971; Bandyan et al., 2021), Israel ( Rosen, 1967; Gonzalez et al., 1978), Jordan (Tselikh, 2020), Libya ( Lal & Naji, 1979a, 1979b), Morocco ( Delucchi, 1962a; Vago, 2002), Syria ( Vidal, 1997) , Turkey (Western part – Öncüer, 1991; Eastern part – Alaoğlu, 1994), Yemen (Narendran et al., 2007).

Zoogeographical distribution: Afrotropical, Australasian, Eastern Palaearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceanic, Oriental, Western Palaearctic .

Remarks: This species has been recorded from Israel ( Rosen, 1967) and Morocco ( Delucchi, 1962a) as Pachyneuron minutissimum (Förster, 1841) .