Masicera sphingivora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830

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 : 322

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.311
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CBA0B37A-8003-4FEC-B780-338141B581F9
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023861
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scientific name	Masicera sphingivora Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
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Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Tanghevaz , 36°21.91'N, 52°6.17'E, 692 m, 4. VI GoogleMaps .2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi.

Distribution. Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Central Asia, Mongolia, Turkey, Russia, Transcaucasia and Japan ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( Karimpour et al., 2006).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Arctiidae : Coscinia bifasciata (Rambur, 1832) ; Geometridae : Aplocera efformata (Guenée, 1857) , Biston betularia (Linnaeus, 1758) ; many species of Lasiocampidae , Lymantriidae , Noctuidae , Nymphalidae , Sphingidae (see Tschorsnig, 2017:230–234).