Records of species of Megaselia Rondani 1856 (Diptera: Phoridae) from West Azerbaijan province including new records for Iran

Namaki Khameneh, Roya; Khaghaninia, Samad; L. Disney, R. Henry

doi:10.48311/jcp.2019.1431

Records of species of Megaselia Rondani 1856 (Diptera: Phoridae) from West Azerbaijan province including new records for Iran

https://doi.org/10.48311/jcp.2019.1431

Volume 8, Issue 2
June 2019

Pages 235-242

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

R. Namaki khameneh ¹

S. Khaghaninia ¹

R. H. L. Disney ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

² Department of Zoology. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

Among specimens collected from West Azerbaijan province- Iran, during 2011-2017, fourteen species of the genus Megaselia Rondani 1856 were identified. Twelve species (Megaselia aculeate (Schmitz, 1919), M. annulipes (Schmitz, 1921), M. brevicostalis (Wood, 1910), M. giraudii (Egger, 1862), M. hendersoni Disney, 1979, M. hirticaudata (Wood, 1910), M. meconicera (Speiser, 1925), M. minuta (Aldrich, 1892), M. pleuralis (Wood, 1909), M. plurispinulosa (Zetterstedt, 1860), M. subnudipennis (Schmitz, 1919) and M. verralli (Wood, 1910)) are being newly reported from Iran. A key to the studied species along with their geographical distributions and supplementary figures are given.

Keywords

Phoridae

Megaselia

new records

West Azerbaijan Province

Iran

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