Telenomus busseolae Gahan, 1922

Minab, Farzad, Rakhshani, Ehsan, Talamas, Elijah J. & Ghafouri Moghaddam, Mostafa, 2023, A checklist of Platygastridae and Scelionidae (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) of Iran, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2), pp. 343-383 : 355

Telenomus busseolae Gahan, 1922

Telenomus busseolae Gahan, 1922:23 , Holotype, ♀. – BMNH.

Distribution in Iran. Khozestan ( Abbasipour et al., 1991; Abdul Razzagh, 1995; Modarres Awal, 1997; Abbasipour, 2004; Jamshidnia et al., 2010; Esfandiari & Soleyman-Nejadian, 2012; Nikpay et al., 2014; Cheraghi et al., 2018).

Zoogeographical distribution. Afrotropical ( Soudan - Risbec, 1950; South Africa – Gahan, 1922, Polaszek & Kimani, 1990), Australasian ( Australia – Murphy et al., 2007), and Palaearctic ( Iraq - Polaszek et al., 1993; Israel - Kozlov & Kononova, 1983; Turkey - Sertkaya & Kornosor, 2003, Bayram, 2003).

Note. This species was recorded from Iran as Platytelenomus hylas Nixon, 1938 ( Abbasipour et al., 1991; Abbasipour, 2004; Ranjbar & Kamali, 2005; Askarianzadeh et al., 2008; Sayadmansour et al., 2009).