New record of the genus and species Temnostoma vespiforme (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Iran

Kazerani, Farzaneh; Talebi, Ali Asghar; Gilasian, Ebrahim; Khayrandish, Mohammad

doi:10.48311/jcp.2014.1119

New record of the genus and species Temnostoma vespiforme (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Iran

10.48311/jcp.2014.1119

Volume 3, Issue 1
March 2014

Pages 69-73

Authors

F. Kazerani ¹

A. A. Talebi ¹

E. Gilasian ²

M. Khayrandish ³

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, Tehran 19395-1454, Iran.

³ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran.

Abstract

A survey was conducted on the fauna of the hover flies in Northern Iran in 2011. Among the collected and identified material, the genus Temnostoma Le Peletier & Serville, 1828represented by a single species, T. vespiforme (Linnaeus, 1758) is newly detected in Iran. Diagnostic characters and geographical distribution of the newly recorded species is briefly discussed.

Keywords

hoverfly

First record

Temnostoma