Gonia ornata 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.311
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023853
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scientific name	Gonia ornata Meigen, 1826
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Gonia ornata Meigen, 1826 View in CoL ( Fig. 2B)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar ( Ghazichak ), 36°45.95'N, 50°19.58'E, 1803 m, 4. VI GoogleMaps .2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish ; 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Tanghevaz , 36°21.91'N, 52°6.17'E, 692 m, 4. V GoogleMaps .2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi ; 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Ghaznasara , 36°16.94'N, 52°10.97'E, 2032 m, 4. VI GoogleMaps .2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi.

Diagnosis. Gena pale yellow, with dense white coating; parafacial at the narrowest point as wide as the face (including facial ridges measured at their widest point); abdomen black, with large lateral redishyellow spots and distinct white dusting along anterior margin of tergites 3–4, tergite 5 at the sides to 4/5 of its length with pruinescence; hind tibia with irregular anterodorsal comb and several intermediary setae.

Distribution. Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe and Scandinavian countries also from Central Asia ( Turkmenistan), Middle East ( Israel), Mongolia, North Africa ( Egypt, Morocco), Russia, Transcaucasia and China ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Geometridae : Lycia florentina (Stefanelli, 1882) ; Lasiocampidae : Psilogaster algeriensis (Baker, 1885) ; Psychidae : Pachythelia villosella (Ochsenheimer, 1810) and many genera and species of Noctuidae (see Tschorsnig, 2017:238–239).