Oscinella pusilla (Meigen, 1830)

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

12. Oscinella pusilla auctt., nec Meigen, 1830

Nartshuk (1997) studied 2 syntypes in museums of Vienna and Paris and found out that neither belongs to the sibling species of O. frit treated under the name pusilla as an agricultural pest since Meigen’s time. Recently, Nartshuk and Andersson (2013: 131) summarized the taxonomical problem, which should be solved by fixing a neotype. This action requires a decision by the ICZN.

Records from Iran: Narchuk et al., 1989; Mansoor-Ghaazi and Radjabi, 2000; Bazyar, 2011. A 2010: 2♀ viii 5; D 2010: 1♂ 2♀ iv 20; J 2009: 1♂ vii 30, 4♀ vii 23, 1♂ 2♀ vii 16.

Distribution: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Is., Bulgaria, Canary Is., Croatia, Czech Republic, Danish mainland, Estonia, Finland, French mainland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italian mainland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madeira, Moldova, Norwegian mainland, Poland, Romania, Russia Central, Russia East, Russia North, Russia Northwest, Russia South, Sardinia, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spanish mainland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Yugoslavia, East Palearctic, Near East ( Nartshuk, 2013a).