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Issue: Vol. 3884 No. 2: 13 Nov. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.7
Page range: 185–193
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 1

New data on Empis Linnaeus (Diptera: Empididae) from Iran, with description of a new species of the subgenus Lissempis Bezzi

University of Tabriz, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, 51664, Tabriz, I.R. Iran.
University of Tabriz, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, 51664, Tabriz, I.R. Iran.
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, P.O. Box: 14115-336, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, shosse Podbel’skogo 3, St. Petersburg – Pushkin 188620 Russia.
Diptera Empididae Empis New species Palaearctic Iran

Abstract

Fourteen species of the genus Empis Linnaeus were collected and identified from Iran. Empis (Lisssempis) guilanensis Kazerani & Shamshev sp. nov. is described and illustrated from Guilan province in north central Iran. The following seven species were recorded from Iran for the first time: E. (Euempis) tessellata Fabricius, 1794; E. (Pachymeria) mediterranea (Loew, 1864); E. (P.) obscuripes (Loew, 1873); E. (Polyblepharis) dedecor Loew, 1869; E. (P.) engeli Chvála, 1999; E. (P.) soror Collin, 1937; E. (P.) spirifera Bezzi, 1909. An identification key to the subgenera and species of Empis from Iran are provided.