Compsilura concinnata (Meigen, 1824)

Karami, Amene, Talebi, Ali Asghar, Gilasian, Ebrahim, Fathipour, Yaghoub & Mehrabadi, Mohammad, 2023, Native parasitoids of the fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) (Lepidoptera, Erebidae), an invasive alien pest in northern Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (1), pp. 81-101 : 87

Compsilura concinnata (Meigen, 1824) ( Fig. 3A)

For taxonomical and morphological characters of this species see Tschorsnig and Herting (1994) and Tachi et al. (2021).

Material examined. Iran, Guilan province, Rezvanshahr, Paresar, Sandian , (37°57′22.70″ N, 49°12′82.95″ E), 02.ix.2019, 190♂, 222♀; on larvae of Hyphantria cunea , leg. A. Karami.

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Ghahari, 2017; current study), Mazandaran (Ghahari, 2017), Fars ( Gheibi & Ostovan, 2010), Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad ( Saeidi, 2011) provinces.

General distribution. Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Australia (New South Wales, Queensland), Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada (introduced) (British Columbia, East, Ontario, Prairies), China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nigeria, North Korea, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Romania, Portugal, Russia (Eastern Siberia, Western Russia, Western Siberia), Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA (introduced) (California, Great Plains, Northeast, Pacific Northwest), Uzbekistan, former Yugoslavia, ( Cerretti & Ziegler, 2004; Tschorsnig et al., 2004; Vanhara & Tschorsnig, 2006; Stanković et al., 2014; O’Hara et al., 2020; Hammami et al., 2022) ( Fig. 4F).

Hosts. Lepidoptera : Hyphantria cunea (Drury, 1773) , Lymantria dispar (Linnaeus, 1758) Leucoma salicis (Linnaeus, 1758) , Euproctis chrysorrhoea (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Orgyia trigotephras Boisduval, 1829 , Ocneria terebinthina Stgr. ( Erebidae ); Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) ( Crambidae ); Hemileuca oliviae Cockerell, 1898 ( Saturniidae ); Thaumetopoea jordana (Staudinger, 1894, T. solitaria (Freyer, 1838) , T. pityocampa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , T. ispartaensis Doğanlar & Avcí ( Notodontidae ); Euphydryas aurinia (Rottemburg, 1775) , Nymphalis antiopa (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Nymphalidae ); Thiacidas postica Walker, 1855 , Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809) ; Dicycla oo (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Noctuidae ) ( Halperin, 1990; Sabahi, 1997; Camerini & Groppali, 1999; Dehghani Zahedani et al., 2006; Farar, 2006; Al-e-Mansoor, 2008; Saeidi, 2011; Stanković et al., 2014; Ghahari, 2017; Tschorsnig, 2017; Farahani et al., 2018; Martini et al., 2019; O’Hara et al., 2020; Hammami et al., 2022).