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Issue: Vol. 4126 No. 2: 17 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.2.8
Page range: 280–286
Abstract views: 74
PDF downloaded: 2

A new genus and species of Xyphosiini (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Iran

Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Varamin-Pishva Branch, Islamic Azad University, Varamin, Iran.
Department of Plant Protection, College of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran
Diptera Tephritidae Xyphosiini Valera ariana sp. nov. new genus key Iran

Abstract

Valera, a monotypic new genus (Tephritidae, Tephritinae, Xyphosiini) and Valera ariana n. sp., the type and only known species, are described from Iran. Systematic relationships with other Xyphosiini are discussed and a key to the genera of the tribe Xyphosiini is presented.

 

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