Blepharipa pratensis (Meigen, 1824)

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 : 320

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.17023845
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scientific name	Blepharipa pratensis (Meigen, 1824)
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Blepharipa pratensis (Meigen, 1824) View in CoL ( Fig. 2A)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ziaz), 36°52.45'N, 50°13.41'E, 490 m, 11. V GoogleMaps .2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish.

Diagnosis. Arista bare; prementum short, about 2 times as long as its diameter; palpus and 2nd ntennal segment yellow; mid tibia with 3 anterodorsal setae; tergite 3 with marginal setae; tergites 3 and 4 completely covered with grey dusting (when viewed obliquely from behind).

Distribution. Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Central Asia ( Turkmenistan), Middle East ( Israel), Russia, Turkey, Transcaucasia, Japan ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Noctuidae : Catocala nymphagoga (Esper, 1787) ; Papilionidae : Iphiclides podalirius (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Saturniidae : Saturnia spini (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) and many genera and species of Lasiocampidae , Lymantriidae and Sphingidae (see Tschorsnig, 2017:224–226).