Eurasimona, Korneyev and White, 1991

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Eurasimona stigma (Loew, 1840) ( fig. 1 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. East Azerbaijan Province: at road near Hovrand [38.77 N, 47.10 E], h = 1725 m ,

17.05.2014, 3 Ơ, at road near Youzband [38.73 N, 47.10 E], 1580 m, 17.05.2014, 1 ♀ (S. & V. Korneyev) ( SIZK) .

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s. Labellum long and narrow ( fig. 1 , a), more than 2.6 times as long as flagellomere 1; scutum densely microtrichose; scutellum largely black, medially with yellow area, with basal scutellar seta based within the black area; wing hyaline except for yellow pterostigma ( fig. 1 , b); in European specimens pterostigma usually entirely black and anteroapical margin of wing with narrow apical band; crossvein dm-cu well developed; glans of phallus without membranous anterior lobes.

H o s t p l a n t s. Biology of E. stigma is poorly known; it has been reported to be reared from the flower heads of various Asteraceae Anthemideae ( Achillea , Leucanthemum and Anthemis — see Korneyev & White (1991) for references), but neither the mode of feeding, nor larvae or puparia are described. Adults are usually collected on the possible host plants in May–June (Korneyev, unpublished data).

D i s t r i b u t i o n. Europe (except British Isles, North and Mediterranean countries) ( Merz & Korneyev, 2004); Russia to southern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk); Caucasus; Middle Asia (N and E Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; E Uzbekistan; Kyrghyzstan) ( Korneyev & White, 1999). First record from Iran.

Genus Inuromaesa Korneyev and White 1991

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s. Face variously produced; proboscis short, spatulate ( fig. 2 , a) or with short labella and long haustellum; anepisternum, anepimeron, and katepisternum sparsely but entirely microtrichose; scutellum yellow; wing entirely hyaline; cell r 4+5 not or slightly narrowed apically ( fig. 2 , b); tergites entirely black or entirely yellow, broad in male; lateral and medial surstyls without additional lobed; glans with small basal sclerite, long to extremely long, gradually tapering, sometimes irregularly, to slender, nonsclerotized apex; spermatheca membranous, with apex of duct moderately sclerotized; puparium posteriorly with black plate including spiracles, without spines. Three species, Inuromaesa (s. str.) maura (Frauenfeld, 1857) infesting flower heads of Inula spp. (Inuleae) in the Middle Europe, from France to through most of European Russia to Western Siberia and Kazakhstan ( White & Korneyev, 1989), I. (s. str.) sogdiana ( Korneyev & Merz, 1998) reared from Jurinea (Cardueae) in Kyrghyzstan, and I. (Promyopites) circumflava ( Korneyev, 1998) from an unknown host in Middle Asia (Komeyev & Merz, 1998). First record from Iran.

Figures

Fig. 1–6. Flies of the tribe Myopitini (1–2, 4–6): (1, 2, 4 — habitus, left; 5 — head, left, enlarged; 6 — wing): 1 — Eurasimona stigma, ♀; 2 — Inuromaesa maura, ♀, 3 — its host plant, Inula salicina, ♀; 4–6 — Myopites inulaedyssentericae.