Neophryxe vallina (Rondani, 1861)

Neophryxe vallina (Rondani, 1861) View in CoL ( Fig. 1G)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar (Ghazichak), 36°45.95'N, 50°19.58'E, 1803 m, 11.VII.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Frons about 1/2 as wide as one eye in dorsal view, antenna and palpus black; arista bare and thickened to half of its length, ocellar setae hair-like; scutellum with erect dorsal setae and crossed strong apical setae; abdominal tergites covered with black long setae, tergite 5 with erect strong setae; abdomen with broad bands of pruinescence along anterior margin of tregites 3–5.

Distribution. Palaearctic - Europe: East Europe ( Slovakia), South Europe ( Bulgaria, Italy, Spain), West Europe ( France, Netherlands, Switzerland), North Africa (Canary Islands) ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Nolidae : Meganola togatulalis (Hübner, 1796) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:32).