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Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy 1830

Description

Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Fig. 1H)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ziaz), 36°52.57'N, 50°13.29'E, 537 m, 11.IV.2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish; 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ziaz), 36°52.57'N, 50°13.29'E, 537 m, 11. VI.2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish; 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ziaz), 36°52.57'N, 50°13.29'E, 537 m, 20. VI.2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish; 1♂, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ziaz), 36°52.45'N, 50°13.41'E, 490 m, 10.IX.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish; 4♂♂, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Orkom), 36°45.73'N, 50°18.19'E, 1201 m, 20. VI.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish; 3♂♂, Iran, Mazandaran, Tanghevaz, 36°21.91'N, 52°6.17'E, 692 m, 4. VI4.2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi; 1♂, Iran, Mazandaran, Noor, 36°34.88'N, 52°2.76'E, 14 m, 27.VII.2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi.

Diagnosis. Frons golden yellow; antenna long and flagellum about 5 times as long as pedicel; thorax and abdomen with golden coating; scutum with 4 black longitudinal stripes; abdominal tergites with broad bands of golden pruinescence interrupted with black longitudinal stripe.

Distribution. Palaearctic - Europe: East Europe (Ukraine), Central Europe (Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Hungry, Romania), South Europe (Bulgaria, Italy, Greece), West Europe (France, Belgium, Germany), Russia, Transcaucasia (O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran (New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Elachistidae: Agonopterix ciliella (Stainton, 1849), Agonopterix furvella (Treitschke, 1832), Depressaria sp.; Geometridae: Aethalura punctulata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), Cyclophora punctaria (Linnaeus, 1758); Noctuidae: Diarsia brunnea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:40).

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 pages 318-320, DOI: 10.52547/jibs.9.2.311, http://zenodo.org/record/17021694

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ICHMM , TMUC , VI
Material sample ID
VI4.2011
Event date
2010-04-11 , 2010-09-10 , 2011-07-27
Verbatim event date
2010-04-11 , 2010-09-10 , 2011-07-27
Scientific name authorship
Robineau-Desvoidy
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Phorinia
Species
aurifrons
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 sec. Sahebari, Khaghaninia & Talebi, 2023

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