Medina collaris (Fallén, 1820)

Medina collaris (Fallén, 1820) View in CoL ( Fig. 1C)

Material examined. 1♀, Iran, Mazandaran, Noor , 36°34.88'N, 52°2.76'E, 14 m, 4.VIII.2011, Malaise trap, TMUC, leg. A. Nadimi GoogleMaps ; 4♀♀, Iran, East Azerbaijan, Arasbaran ( Makidi valley ), 38°50.42'N, 46°54.74'E, 1496 m, 25.VII.2014, sweep net, ICHMM leg. F. Seyyedi-Sahebari. GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Arista pubescent and thickened in basal 1/5; fore tibia with one erect setae; scutum before the suture with white coating and five thin dark longitudinal stripes; apical scutellar setae absent; lateral scutellar setae as long and as strong as the basal setae; halters yellow; abdomen with broad bands of pruinescence along anterior margin of tregites 3–5; sternite 7 at the end with a plate-like sclerite.

Distribution. Oriental - China (East); Palaearctic - Widely distributed in Europe also from Mongolia, Russia, Transcaucasia, Japan, China (Central, Northeast, South-Central) ( O’Hara et al., 2020), Iran ( New record).

Host range. Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae : Galerucella lineola (Fabricius, 1781) , Lochmaea caprea (Linnaeus, 1758) , L. suturalis (Thomson, 1866) , Pyrrhalta viburni (Paykull, 1799) , Xanthogaleruca luteola (Müller, 1766) (see Tschorsnig, 2017:53).