Published March 2, 2020 | Version v1

Clusia flava

  • 1. Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, I. R. Iran
  • 2. Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, De Bosquetplein, 6 - 7, NL- 6211 KJ, Maastricht, the Netherlands
  • 3. Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Natural Resources Research and Education Center of Mazandaran, AREEO, Mazandaran, I. R. Iran)

Description

Clusia flava (Meigen, 1830) (fig. 1)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Iran, Golestan province, Shast-Kola forests [36°43'10" N, 54°24'17" E], 817 m, sweeping net, 10.06.2017, 1 ♀; Mazandaran province, Neka [36°22'42.03" N, 53°33.05'52.7" E], 1210 m, sweeping net, 27.07.2018, 5 ♀, 1 Ơ (Kazerani & Mohammadnezhad Kiasari).

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s: Palpi yellow, black at apex; antenna with scape and pedicel pale yellow, post-pedicel black in upper part and pale yellow in lower part; thorax yellow with or without a pair of narrow black dorsocentral stripes that may continue onto scutellum; apair of lateral black stripes may be present on either side of the notopleural suture, the dorsal one running from the postpronotum to the base of wing, the ventral one running from the prothoracic stigma to the halter but with a short interruption at the suture between the anepimeron and the pteropleuron; legs including coxae and trochanters whitish yellow to yellow, femora often paleron basal half, mid en hind tibiae often darker on basal half; abdomen yellow either with or without dark pattern on tergites, when present at least with black spots at lateral margins of tergites, dorsal parts of tergites then either with or without broad blackspots which may merge to form complete crossbands over the tergites.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Palearctic: Europe, Russia, Japan.

Notes

Published as part of Kazerani, F., Beuk, P., Farashiani, M. E. & Kiasari, Sh. Mohammadnezhad, 2020, First Records Of The Rare Family Clusiidae (Diptera, Opomyzoidea) From Iran, pp. 31-34 in Zoodiversity 54 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2020.01.031, http://zenodo.org/record/6455412

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
E , M , O
Event date
2017-10-06 , 2018-07-27
Verbatim event date
2017-10-06 , 2018-07-27
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Malpighiales
Family
Clusiaceae
Genus
Clusia
Species
flava
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Clusia flava (Meigen, 1830) sec. Kazerani, Beuk, Farashiani & Kiasari, 2020