Published August 28, 2017
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Study of the robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) in East and West Azerbaijan provinces of Iran, with two new species records for the country
Authors/Creators
- 1. Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant Protection, University of Tabriz, Tabriz 51664, Iran.
- 2. Volgograd State University, 100 Universitetskiy pr., Volgograd 400062, Russia.
Description
Based on specimens collected from East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan provinces during 2014–2016, fourteen species of the family Asilidae are collected and identified. Two of them, e.g. Dysmachus transcaucasicus Richter, 1962; Saropogon megriensis Richter, 1966 are recorded from Iran for the first time. All species are listed along with their geographic distributions. Diagnostic characters as well as supplementary illustrations of new records are provided.