First record of the genus and species Pipiza accola Violovitsh (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Iran

10.48311/jcp.2012.1056
Volume 1, Issue 4
December 2012
Pages 287-291

Authors

1 Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P. O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, Iran

2 Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, P. O. Box: 1454-19395, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
A survey on the hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) fauna of northern Iran, between 2010 and 2011, led to the discovery of the species Pipiza accola Violovitsh, 1985. Both the genus and species are newly recorded from Iran. All the specimens were collected from Gilan and Mazandaran provinces, using Malaise traps. The diagnostic characters of P. accola and its geographical distribution is presented.

Keywords

References

 

Brown, B. V. 1993. A further chemical alternative to critical- point-drying for preparing small (or large) flies. Fly Times, 11: 10.

Haarto, A. and Kerppola, S. 2007. Soumen Kukkakärpaset ja lähialueiden lajeja. Finnish hoverflies and some species in adjacent countries. Otavan Kirjapaino Oy, Keuruu.

Masetti, A., Luchetti, A., Sommagio, D., Burgio, G. and Mantovani, B. 2006. Phylogeny of Chrysotoxum species (Diptera: Syrphidae) inferred from morphological and molecular characters. European Journal of entomology, 103: 459-467.

Mutin, V. A. 2002. Review of the far eastern species of the genus Pipiza Fallen, 1810 (Diptera, Syrphidae). Far Eastern Entomologist, 121: 1-16.,

Peck, L. V. 1988. Family Syrphidae, In: Soos A. & Papp L. (Eds), Catalogue of Palearctic Diptera (Syrphidae - Conopidae). Elesevier, Amsetrdam, pp. 11-230

Speight, M. C. D. 2007. Epistrophe olgae Mutin 1999 (Diptera: Syrphidae) une nouvelle espèce pour la Suisse et la France. Bulletin Romand d’Entomologie, 24 (3): 41-42.

Stahls, G., Hippa, H., Rotheray, G., Muona, J. and Gilbert, F. 2003. Phylogeny of Syrphidae (Diptera) inferred from combined analysis of molecular and morphological characters. Systematic Entomology, 28: 433-450

Stubbs, A. E. and Falk, S. J. 1983. British Hoverflies, an Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological and Natural History Society, London.

Ssymank, A., Doczkal, D., Barkemeyer, W., Claussen, C., Lohr, P. W. and Scholz, A. 1999. Syrphidae, In: Schumann H., Bährmann R. and Stark A. (Eds.), Checkliste der Dipteren Deutschlands, Suppl. Vol. 2, Studia dipterologica, Ampyx-Verlag, Halle, pp. 195-203

Thompson, F. C. and Rotheray, G. E. 1998. Family Syrphidae. In: Papp, L., Darvas, B. (Eds.), Manual of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 3, Science Herald, Budapest, pp. 81-139.

Van Veen, M. P. 2004. Hover flies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. KNNV Publishing, Utrech.

Violovitsh, N. A. (1985) New flower flies (Diptera, Syrphidae) of the Palaearctic fauna. Nov maloizv vidy Fauny Sibiri 18, 80-96. [In Russian, English summary]

Violovitsh, N. A. 1988. Kratkii obzor Palearktičeskih vidov roda Pipiza Fallen (Diptera, Syrphidae). Taksonomia I ekologiya zhivotnykh Sibiri. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, Nauka, Sibirskoe predprirastie RAN, 20: 108-126. [In Russian]

Vujić, A. 2003. Concept of the species of the genus Pipiza Fallen, 1810 (Diptera: Syrphidae) on the Balkan Peninsula. Abstracts volume, II International Symposium on the Syrphidae, Biodiversity and Conservation, Alicante, Spain, p. 115.

Vujić, A., Randenkovic, S. and Polic, D. 2008. A review of the luteitarsis group of the genus Pipiza Fallén (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new species from the Balkan Peninsula. Zootaxa, 1845: 33-46.

Wnuk, A. 1972. Investigations on the species composition of predaceous Syrphidae (Diptera) occurring in the colonies of aphids on fruit trees and shrubs. Bulletin Entomologique de Pologne, 62: 235-247.

Wolff, D. 1998. Pipiza accola Violovitsh, 1985 (Diptera, Syrphidae)-Erstnachweis für Deutschland. Drosera, 98: 123-126.