Faunistic study on hover flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the eastern part of Zanjan province, Iran

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

M. Naderloo ¹ , Sh. Pashaei Rad ² , M. V. Taghaddosi ³

1 - Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biological Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biological Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center of Zanjan province, Iran

Received: 2011-01-06 Accepted : 2011-05-15 Published : 2013-02-19

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In order to study on Syrphidae faunistic in the eastern part of Zanjan province in the years of 2008 and 2009, some adult specimens were collected and identified. In total, 31 species belong to 16 genus from 2 subfamilies were collected. Among the specimens, 28 species as follow are new records for Zanjan province and the species marked with an asterisk is the first record from Iran.   Subfamily: Syrphinae Spazigaster ambulans (Fabricius,1798)*, Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus ,1758), Platycheirus sp., Paragus albifrons (Fallen, 1817), Paragus bicolor (Fabricius, 1794), Paragus abrogans Goeldlin de Tiefenau, 1971, Sphaerophoria rueppelli (Wiedemann,1830), Sphaerophoria scripta (Linnaeus, 1758), Sphaerophoria turkmenica Bankowska, 1964, Ischiodon scutellaris (Fabricius, 1805), Scaeva pyrastri (Linnaeus,1758), Scaeva albomaculata (Macquart, 1842), Episyrphus balteatus (DeGeer, 1776), Eupeodes nuba (Wiedemann, 1830), Meliscaeva auricollis (Meigen, 1822).   Subfamily: Milesiinae Eumerus strigatus (Fallen, 1817), Eumerus sogdianus Stackelberg, 1952, Helophilus continuus Loew, 1854, Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus, 1758), Eristalis arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758), Eristalis similis Fallen, 1817, Eristalinus taeniops (Wiedemann, 1818), Eristalinus megacephalus (Rossi, 1794), Eristalinus sepulchralis (Linnaeus, 1758), Eristalinus aeneus (Scopoli, 1763), Pipizella divicoi (Goeldlin de Tiefenau, 1974), Neoascia podagrica (Fabricius, 1775), Syritta pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758).