Polyodaspis sulcicollis (Meigen, 1838)

Bazyar, Zeinab, Dousti, Abu Fazel, Tschirnhaus, Michael Von, Received, Majid Fallahzadeh & Online, Published, 2015, A first overview of the fauna of Chloropidae of Iran (Diptera, Acalyptratae), Turkish Journal of Zoology 39 (6), pp. 1041-1049 : 1044

15. Polyodaspis sulcicollis (Meigen, 1838)

Record from Iran: Nartshuk, 1984. Nartshuk (2012) recently published a key to the Palearctic Polyodaspis species including 5 taxa that had been synonymized with P. ruficornis . In her Turkish overview (Nartshuk, 2012), she added a new species, P. splendida , to this key. Hence, as many specimens as possible should be collected or reared (from conifer cones, nuts, dicot flower heads, or plant stems, e.g., Orobanche ) in the future to clarify the Iranian fauna of Polyodaspis species.

On 1 April 1997, M.v. T. observed that thousands of males attracted females by rapid wing-waving combined with the extrusion of abdominal terminal sac-like odor organs. The display took place in direct sunlight, with the males quickly running around on single whitish limestones on the forest floor of scattered Pinus forest in the mountains of the Greek island of Rhodes (36°11′N, 27°54′E). In comparable Iranian forests in the Alborz mountain range, this hitherto unknown phenomenon could possibly be observed, along with the subsequent egg-laying into fallen conifer cones, flower heads, or other substrates from which the species has been reared .

Distribution: Austria, British Is., Bulgaria, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Greek mainland, Hungary, Italian mainland, Malta, Moldova, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palearctic, Near East, North Africa ( Nartshuk, 2013a).