Gonia vacua Meigen, 1826

Seyyedi Sahebari, Farnaz, Khaghaninia, Samad & Talebi, Ali Asghar, 2023, New data on the subfamily Exoristinae (Diptera, Tachinidae) from northern Iran, with 11 genera and 15 new records of species for the country, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9 (2), pp. 311-329 : 321-322

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.311
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023855
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scientific name	Gonia vacua Meigen, 1826
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Gonia vacua Meigen, 1826 View in CoL ( Fig. 2C)

Material examined. 1♂, Iran, Mazandaran, Tanghevaz , 36°21.92'N, 52°6.17'E, 702 m, 27. V GoogleMaps .2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi.

Diagnosis. Face in lower part broader than parafacial at the same level; parafacial pale yellow, with silvery white coating; anterior seta of parafacial strong but not longer than remaining hairs; abdomen with a narrow black longitudinal stripe which tapers towards the back and ends in a point on tergite 5; abdominal hairs upright in the area of the black stripe.

Distribution. Palaearctic - Europe: East Europe ( Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine), South Europe ( Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain), West Europe ( Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland), Russia (Western Russia), Transcaucasia, China ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Noctuidae : Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:239).