Prelimnary Investigation on the Fauna of Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae) in Fars Province, Iran

Subject Areas : Plant Protection

Mehdi Gheibi ¹ , Hadi Ostovan ²

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Received: 2010-01-04 Accepted : 2010-02-07 Published : 2009-12-22

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The family Tachinidae with approximately 10000 described species worldwide is the second family in Diptera and the larvae are endoparasitoids of Arthropoda, nearly always in insects. During 2006 – 2008 a faunistic survey was carried out to collect tachinid flies from some regions of Fars province. Data are given on the distribution of 63 species from 50 genera belonging to the four subfamilies. Of these, 39 species were recorded for the first time from Iran and 57 species from Fars province. A key to local genera and figures are presented.

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