Clusia flava (Meigen, 1830)

Kazerani, F., Beuk, P., Farashiani, M. E. & Kiasari, Sh. Mohammadnezhad, 2020, First Records Of The Rare Family Clusiidae (Diptera, Opomyzoidea) From Iran, Zoodiversity 54 (1), pp. 31-34 : 32

Clusia flava (Meigen, 1830) ( fig. 1 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Iran, Golestan province, Shast-Kola forests [36°43'10" N, 54°24'17" E], 817 m, sweeping net, 10.06.2017, 1 ♀; Mazandaran province, Neka [36°22'42.03" N, 53°33.05'52.7" E], 1210 m, sweeping net, 27.07.2018, 5 ♀, 1 Ơ (Kazerani & Mohammadnezhad Kiasari) .

D i a g n o s t i c c h a r a c t e r s: Palpi yellow, black at apex; antenna with scape and pedicel pale yellow, post-pedicel black in upper part and pale yellow in lower part; thorax yellow with or without a pair of narrow black dorsocentral stripes that may continue onto scutellum; apair of lateral black stripes may be present on either side of the notopleural suture, the dorsal one running from the postpronotum to the base of wing, the ventral one running from the prothoracic stigma to the halter but with a short interruption at the suture between the anepimeron and the pteropleuron; legs including coxae and trochanters whitish yellow to yellow, femora often paleron basal half, mid en hind tibiae often darker on basal half; abdomen yellow either with or without dark pattern on tergites, when present at least with black spots at lateral margins of tergites, dorsal parts of tergites then either with or without broad blackspots which may merge to form complete crossbands over the tergites.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Palearctic: Europe, Russia, Japan.

Figures

Figs 1–4: 1 — female habitus of Clusia flava (Meigen, 1830), lateral view; 2 — female habitus of Clusia tigrina (Fallén, 1820), dorsal view; 3 — male habitus of Clusia tigrina (Fallén, 1820), lateral view; 4 — female habitus of Clusiodes ruficollis (Meigen, 1830), dorsal view.