Diversity of flower flies (Dip.: Syrphidae) in Lorestan province

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

F. Bahirai ¹ , A. Mehrvar ² , B. Gharali ³ , H. A. Lotfalizadeh ⁴ , S. Jafari ⁵

1 - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Iran
2 - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran
3 - Department of Plant Protection, Ghazvin Agricultural Research Center for Agriculture and Natural resource, Ghazvin, Iran
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Protection, Agricultural and Natural resources Research Center of East-Azarbaijan, Tabriz, Iran
5 - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Received: 2012-08-15 Accepted : 2014-04-16 Published : 2015-05-22

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Abstract :

The family Syrphidae is one of the largest families of Diptera. Their adults feed mainly on nectar and pollen and the larvae eat a wide range of foods. Some species are predators of different pests especially aphids. A survey was conducted during 2009-2010 on the fauna of Syrphid flies in Lorestan province, Iran. A total of 27 species belonging to 16 genera and two subfamilies were identified, which 22 of them were new records from Lorestan province and one species were new record for the faune of Iran. The list of collected species is as follow: Subfamily Syrphinae: Episyrphus balteatus (DeGeer, 1776); Ischiodon aegyptius (Wiedemann, 1830)*; I. scutellaris (Fabricius, 1808)*; Syrphus vitripennis Meigen, 1822*; Xanthogramma maculipenne (Mik, 1887)*; Eupeodes (Eupeodes) corollae (Fabricius, 1794); E. (E.) nuba (Wiedemann, 1830)*; Scaeva albomaculata (Macquart, 1842);  S. dignota  (Rondani, 1857)*; Sphaerophoria rueppelli (Widemann, 1830)*; S. scripta (Linnaeus, 1758)*; S. turkmenica (Bankowska, 1964)*; Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus, 1758)*; Chrysotoxum parmense (Rondani, 1845)*; Paragus (Padasyophthalumus) tibialis (Fallen, 1817)*; P. (Paragus) bicolor (Fabricius, 1794)*; P. (P.) compeditus Wiedemann, 1830 Subfamily Milesiinae (Eristalinae): Eristalinus taeniops (Wiedemann, 1818) *;E. (Lathyrophthalmus) aeneus (Scopoli, 1763) *;E. (L.) megacephalus (Rossi, 1794)*; E. (Eristalinus) sepulchralis (Linnaeus, 1758)*; Eristalis (Eoseristalis) arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758) *; E. (Eristalis) tenax (Linnaeus, 1758)*; Eumerus kazanovskeye Param., 1927**; Merodon (Merodon) pruni (Rossi, 1790)*; Syritta pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758)*and Volucella zonaria (Poda, 1761)*. The species marked with one asterisk are new records for Lorestan province and the Eumerus kazanovskeye is recorded for the first time form Iran and appeared with two asterisks.