Pales pavida (Meigen, 1824)

Pales pavida (Meigen, 1824) View in CoL ( Fig. 2F)

Material examined. 1♂ 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Noor , 36°34.88'N, 52°2.76'E, 14 m, 4.X.2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Eyes densely hairy; frons in males 0.72–0.84 times and in females 0.88–1 times as wide as on eye in dorsal view; lower facial margin not visible in lateral view; parafacial in both sexes 1.08–1.25 times as long as the frons; 3rd antennal segment in males 3.5–4.6 times and in females 2.5–3 times as long as the 2nd; scutellum black, with crossed apical setae; abdominal tergites 3 and 4 each with median discal setae; tergites more with pruinescence, rather shiny. Males: base of surstili narrow (viewed from behind) and cerci bent a little upwards at the end.

Distribution. Oriental - China (East, West), Japan; Palaearctic - Widespread throughout Europe and Scandinavian countries also from Central Asia ( Turkmenistan), China (Central, Northeast, South-central), Middle East ( Israel), Mongolia, North Africa ( Morocco), Russia, Turkey, Transcaucasia ( Armenia) ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Many genera and species of Tortricidae , Noctuidae , Geometridae , Lasiocampidae and Lymantriidae (see Tschorsnig, 2017:198–208).