Aphidius colemani Viereck 1912
Creators: name: Rakhshani, Ehsan
name: Barahoei, Hossein
name: Ahmad, Zubair
name: Starý, Petr
name: Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa
name: Mehrparvar, Mohsen
name: Kavallieratos, Nickolas G.
name: Čkrkić, Jelisaveta
name: Tomanović, Željko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Aphidius
Aphidius colemani

description: Aphidius colemani Viereck, 1912
Figs 84, 187, 283, 385, 481, 521
Host records
Acyrthosiphon gossypii Mordvilko (?), Acyrthosiphon pisum (Harris) (?) (Starý & Erdelen 1982); Aphis aurantii Boyer de Fonscolombe (Rosen 1967, 1969; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1976; Tremblay et al. 1985; Yumruktepe & Uygun 1994; Uysal et al. 2004; Yoldaş et al. 2011); Aphis chloris Koch (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis craccivora Koch (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Yoldaş et al. 2011; Ahmad & Bakr 2013; Satar et al. 2014); Aphis epilobiaria Theobald (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis fabae Scopoli (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Starý & Erdelen 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b – as Aphis citricola van der Goot; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis gossypii Glover (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Yoldaş et al. 2002, 2011; Uysal et al. 2004; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Irshaid & Hasan 2011; Laamari et al. 2012; Satar et al. 2014; Ayadi et al. 2017); Aphis hederae Kaltenbach, Aphis illinoisensis Shimer (El-Gantiry et al. 2012; Havelka et al. 2011); Aphis intybi Koch (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou- Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis nerii Boyer de Fonscolombe (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis nasturtii Kaltenbach (Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b – as Aphis zizyphi Theobald); Aphis pomi De Geer (Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Aphis punicae Passerini (Starý 1976; Al-Azawi 1970; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Laamari et al. 2012); Aphis solanella Theobald (Ayadi et al. 2017); Aphis umbrella (Börner) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis verbasci Schrank (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Aphis sp. (Starý 1975, 1976); Brachycaudus amygdalinus (Schouteden) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Brachycaudus cardui (L.) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Brachycaudus helichrysi (Kaltenbach) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Starý & Erdelen 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Uysal et al. 2004; Satar et al. 2014); Capitophorus elaeagni (Del Guercio) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Diuraphis noxia (Kurdjumov) (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Starý et al. 2013); Hayhurstia atriplicis (L.) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Hyadaphis foeniculi (Passerini) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Hyperomyzus lactucae (L.) (?) (Güz & Kilinçer 2005); Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Macrosiphum rosae (L.) (?) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Myzus persicae (Sulzer) (Abou-Fakhr 1982; Starý & Erdelen 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998; Güz & Kilinçer 2005; Yoldaş et al. 2011; Laamari et al. 2012; Ahmad & Bakr 2013; Satar et al. 2014; Hasan 2016); Ovatus mentharius (van der Goot) (Güz & Kilinçer 2005); Rhopalosiphum maidis (Fitch) (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Güz & Kilinçer 2005; Gadallah et al. 2017); Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae (L.) (Starý 1976); Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Tremblay et al. 1985; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abdel-Rahman et al. 2000; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; Gadallah et al. 2017); Schizaphis graminum (Rondani) (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b; Abdel-Rahman et al. 2000; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006); Schizaphis rosazevedoi Ilharco (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Sitobion avenae (Fabricius) (Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002; Sobhy et al. 2004; Gadallah et al. 2017); Sitobion fragariae (Walker) (Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b).
Distribution in the Middle East and North Africa
Algeria (Starý 1975, 1976; Laamari et al. 2011, 2012); Egypt (Starý 1976; Ghanim & El-Adl 1983; Abdel-Rahman et al. 2000; El-Heneidy & Abdel-Samad 2001; El-Heneidy et al. 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004; Sobhy et al. 2004; Abdel-Rahman 2005; Slman 2006; El-Gantiry et al. 2012; El-Ghiet et al. 2014; Gadallah et al. 2017); Iraq (Al-Azawi 1970; Starý & Kaddou 1971; Starý 1976); Israel (Rosen 1967, 1969; Avidov & Harpaz 1969; Starý 1970, 1975, 1976; Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b); Jordan (Irshaid & Hasan 2011; Hasan 2016); Lebanon (Starý 1976; Abou-Fakhr 1982; Tremblay et al. 1985; Abou-Fakhr & Kawar 1998); Libya (Havelka et al. 2011; Tomanović et al. 2014); Morocco (Starý & Sekkat 1987); Palestine (Samara & Qubbaj 2012); Saudi Arabia (Ahmad & Bakr 2013); Syria (Starý 1975, 1976); Tunisia (Starý 1976; Ben Halima & Ben Hamouda 2005; Boukhris-Bouhachem 2011; Ayadi et al. 2017); Turkey (Starý 1976; Uysal et al. 2004; Eastern part – Tozlu et al. 2002; Ölmez & Ulusoy 2003; Central part – Yumruktepe & Uygun 1994; Güz & Kilinçer 2005; Satar et al. 2014; Western part – Yoldaş et al. 2002, 2011; Erdoğan et al. 2008; Akar & Erdoğan 2017); UAE (Starý et al. 2013); Yemen (Starý & Erdelen 1982; Starý et al. 2013).
General distribution
Cosmopolitan.
Remarks
All evidence from Iran (Starý 1979, Starý et al. 2000; Rakhshani et al. 2008a), refer to Aphidius platensis (Tomanović et al. 2014). Identification-revision of this species group is recommended. Description and illustration of Aphidius colemani in Mescheloff & Rosen 1990b, clearly represent the diagnostic characters of Aphidius platensis.
description: Published as part of Rakhshani, Ehsan, Barahoei, Hossein, Ahmad, Zubair, Starý, Petr, Ghafouri-Moghaddam, Mostafa, Mehrparvar, Mohsen, Kavallieratos, Nickolas G., Čkrkić, Jelisaveta & Tomanović, Željko, 2019, Review of Aphidiinae parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) of the Middle East and North Africa: key to species and host associations, pp. 1-132 in European Journal of Taxonomy 552 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2019.552, http://zenodo.org/record/3476562