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Ceracia mucronifera Rondani 1865

Description

Ceracia mucronifera Rondani, 1865 (Fig. 1A)

Material examined. 2♂♂, Iran, East Azerbaijan, Arasbaran (Makidi valley), 38°50.42'N, 46°54.74'E, 1496 m, 25.VII.2014, sweep net, ICHMM, leg. F. Seyyedi-Sahebari.

Diagnosis. Frons with parallel edges, as wide as one eye in dorsal view; 1st and 2nd antennal segment yellow; palpus yellow; thorax black, covered by white-grey pruinescence on the sides, scutum before the suture with four thin dark longitudinal stripes; basicosta yellow; last section of Cu 1 a little shorter than M-Cu; tibia black; abdomen black, evenly covered with rather dense yellowish-grey pruinescence; tergite 3 as long as the 4th, tergite 5 as long as 1/2–3/5 of the 4th.

Distribution. Afrotropical - Yemen; Oriental - China (East); Palaearctic - Europe: South Europe (Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey), West Europe (France), Middle East (Israel), North Africa (Canary Islands, Morocco) (O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record).

Host range. Orthoptera - Acrididae: Chorthippus sp., Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus, 1758), Pyrgomorpha conica (Olivier, 1791); Pamphagidae: Acrostira bellamyi (Uvarov, 1922), Eremotmethis carinatus (Fabricius, 1775), Tmethis pulchripennis Serville, 1838 (see Tschorsnig, 2017:89).

Notes

Published as part of Seyyedi Sahebari, Farnaz, Khaghaninia, Samad & Talebi, Ali Asghar, 2023, New data on the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera, Tachinidae) from northern Iran, with 11 genera and 15 new records of species for the country, pp. 311-329 in Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2) on page 313, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.311, http://zenodo.org/record/17021694

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ICHMM
Event date
2014-07-25
Verbatim event date
2014-07-25
Scientific name authorship
Rondani
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Ceracia
Species
mucronifera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ceracia mucronifera Rondani, 1865 sec. Sahebari, Khaghaninia & Talebi, 2023

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