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Issue: Vol. 4103 No. 3: 13 Apr. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.3.6
Page range: 276–282
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of Myolepta pazukii Gilasian & Reemer sp. nov. (Diptera: Syrphidae) with notes on the Iranian species of Myolepta Newman

Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, 19395-1454, Iran.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, European Invertebrate Survey – the Netherlands, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
Insect Taxonomy Research Department, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, 19395-1454, Iran.
Diptera Arjan Biosphere Reserve hoverflies Iran Middle East new species taxonomy

Abstract

Myolepta pazukii Gilasian & Reemer sp. nov. is described from Iran based on a single male specimen. Photographs of the male holotype and illustrations of its abdomen and hypandrium are provided. The new species is incorporated into the key to the west Palaearctic Myolepta species provided by Reemer et al. (2004). Taxonomic notes and distribution data on two recorded Iranian Myolepta species are presented.

 

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