Phorinia aurifrons 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 : 318-320

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.52547/jibs.9.2.311
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17023836
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scientific name	Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830
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Phorinia aurifrons Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 View in CoL ( Fig. 1H)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar ( Ziaz ), 36°52.57'N, 50°13.29'E, 537 m, 11.IV.2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar ( Ziaz ), 36°52.57'N, 50°13.29'E, 537 m, 11. VI GoogleMaps .2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish ; 1♀, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar ( Ziaz ), 36°52.57'N, 50°13.29'E, 537 m, 20. VI GoogleMaps .2010, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. M. Khayrandish ; 1♂, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar ( Ziaz ), 36°52.45'N, 50°13.41'E, 490 m, 10.IX.2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish GoogleMaps ; 4♂♂, Iran, Guilan, Roodsar ( Orkom ), 36°45.73'N, 50°18.19'E, 1201 m, 20. VI GoogleMaps .2010, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. M. Khayrandish ; 3♂♂, Iran, Mazandaran, Tanghevaz , 36°21.91'N, 52°6.17'E, 692 m, 4. VI4.2011 GoogleMaps , Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi ; 1♂, Iran, Mazandaran, Noor , 36°34.88'N, 52°2.76'E, 14 m, 27.VII.2011, Malaise trap, ICHMM, leg. A. Nadimi. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Frons golden yellow; antenna long and flagellum about 5 times as long as pedicel; thorax and abdomen with golden coating; scutum with 4 black longitudinal stripes; abdominal tergites with broad bands of golden pruinescence interrupted with black longitudinal stripe.

Distribution. Palaearctic - Europe: East Europe ( Ukraine), Central Europe ( Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Hungry, Romania), South Europe ( Bulgaria, Italy, Greece), West Europe ( France, Belgium, Germany), Russia, Transcaucasia ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Lepidoptera - Elachistidae : Agonopterix ciliella (Stainton, 1849) , Agonopterix furvella (Treitschke, 1832) , Depressaria sp. ; Geometridae : Aethalura punctulata (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) , Cyclophora punctaria (Linnaeus, 1758) ; Noctuidae : Diarsia brunnea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:40).